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    Challenges→Understanding why mystical paradoxes affirm and then deny features requires having a mystical experience

    Wittgenstein's analysis of ineffability shows paradoxical language arises from grammar straining against conceptual limits, not from privileged experiential access.

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    • 1.Wittgenstein's later work demonstrates that meaning derives from language-games and use, not inner experiences, making experiential access epistemically irrelevant.
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    • 2.The Tractatus's logical form shows how grammatical structure constrains what can be coherently expressed, predicting paradoxes at conceptual boundaries.
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    • 3.Appeals to 'ineffable experience' mistake psychological impact for semantic content—we strain language because our concepts lack proper tools, not mystical access.
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    • 1.Some ineffability claims (pain, qualia, mystical states) resist reduction to grammar; they suggest genuine limits to linguistic representation itself.
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    • 2.Wittgenstein's own mystical remarks in the Tractatus suggest he acknowledged genuine ineffable truths beyond logical-linguistic analysis.
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    • 3.The theory conflates 'grammatically inexpressible' with 'not genuinely knowable'—but privileged access and linguistic limits could coexist independently.
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