Words for Otherness

Abstract

It seems that there is no saying about 'otherness', because it is just what we can't say about in the sense of Tractatus. Otherness I will discuss does not stand outside my consciousness, but outside my language. At first I can't translate others' words into my language; to understand them I have to change my language. Tractatus did not argue about any problem of language-change in front of otherness. But I will try to place Tractatus at such a non-solipsistic position. I will be ableto say about what I now can't say about, and otherness comes out at the very critical point of this language-change of mine.