“The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world.”

—  Ludwig Wittgenstein

1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Context: This remark provides the key to the problem, how much truth there is in solipsism. For what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest. The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world. (5.62)

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