In the early 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein transformed how philosophers think about language and reality. n his Tractatus Logico‑Philosophicus, he proposed that language functions as a system of representation: sentences are “pictures” of facts in the world. If a statement corresponds to something observable, it has meaning. For Wittgenstein, this was a theory of limits. He wrote, “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” suggesting that what can be meaningfully said is bounde