explain in details, Ludwig Wittgenstein's definition of philosophy as "i know not what."?

Question

explain the definition in a more concise and reliable manner and elaborate on it.

Answer 1

basically, he felt that philosophy was a therapeutic attempt to reduce confusion (the confusion caused by humans asking such questions as , "what is the soul" "is there a god" , etc,),,,,, and that since there would be different methods/approaches to answering each question, then there was no one method of philosophy,, hence it is "i know not what"

Answer 2

Why do people keep asking this question? Are you all in the same class? Anyway... Wittgenstein is most likely referring to the limits of knowledge, moreover the limits of philosophy. At the end of the Tractatus he says (paraphrasing) 'of that which we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent' I've always thought this quite a Kantian point, in that it is highlighting the limits of human knowledge. However, at that point Wittgenstein hadn't read much aside from the works of Frege and Russell Philosophy is i know not what because as a subject it is concerned with the limits of human knowledge and tries to push beyond them. In doing so it loses any concrete relations and thus becomes impossible to describe. Think of it in these terms - physics is the scientific study of the physical world, philosophy is i know not what.... get it?

Answer 3

'I think, therefore I am' - Desxartes.