what is the meaning of lugwig wittgenstein ''i know not what''?

Answer 1

Austrian philosopher

Answer 2

Obtaining an excerpt of literature in wikipedia.org

"He spent the last two years of his life working in Vienna, the United States, Oxford, and Cambridge. He worked continuously on new material, inspired by the conversations that he had had with his friend and former student Norman Malcolm during a long vacation at the Malcolm’s' house in the United States. Malcolm had been wrestling with G.E. Moore's common sense response to external world skepticism ("Here is one hand, and here is another; therefore I know at least two external things exist")"

It is that there may be a possibility that Ludwig was then contemplating the philosophy of Socrates and so paraphrased Socrates’ ideology into a condensed form, but not necessarily more understood.

"Skepticism has a long historical tradition dating back to ancient Greece, when Socrates observed: “All I know is that I know nothing.” But this pure position is sterile and unproductive and held by virtually no one. If you were skeptical about everything, you would have to be skeptical of your own skepticism. Like the decaying subatomic particle, pure skepticism uncoils and spins off the viewing screen of our intellectual cloud chamber."

This makes it apparent that Ludwig might have rephrased Socrates’ philosophy into a condensed form, but necessarily more understood.

from my understanding; both philosophers accepted that in admiting that they know nothing, is accepting that they are trully knowing.

Hope this helps....

Answer 3

Mr. Wittgenstein was jewish and he probably heard or learned somewhere that: What cannot be attained cannot be named. So he proposes to keep silence in such cases.

Answer 4

A place to begin