I can't find my bi-lingual edition of the Tractatus, but 7 (the last section of the book), in the Pears and McGuinness translation of 1974--not their first try at it, which was published in 1961--according to them revised in light of Wittgenstein's comments on the C. K. Ogden translation of 1922, comments which were not available to them earlier, reads ''What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.' This does not strike me as tautologous at all. It is an injunction, an injunction derived from the section immediately preceding it, 6.54, around which Donal McEvoy and I have been doing a little logical dance. It is, if you like, both an injunction and a reminder, no more tautological than 'The boss is the boss.' Robert Paul Reed College ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html