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of the world. (Wittgenstein, capable of contemplating the
2001: 179) entirety of the world.
The determination of the The philosophical subject
metaphysical subject's will does not stand within the
Determines where my world world but is immersed in it:
begins and where it ends. In The mind is not something
this approach, by distancing other than mountains, rivers,
oneself from the conventional the whole earth, the sun, the
mode of observation, the world moon, and the stars.
is perceived in an eternal Therefore, it can be said:
perspective by the metaphysical There is no world apart from
subject as a bounded whole me.
from the outside. The philosophical subject
In other words, it can be is immersed in the world and
argued that the world is my shapes meaning. They make
world. In this approach, the the depiction of the world
philosophical subject is possible and recognize meaning
distinguished from the through the conformity of
psychological subject. propositions with the world.
The psychological subject Thus, the philosophical subject
is situated within the world of is not something separate
facts, while the philosophical from the individual and the
subject is neither human nor awareness of the whole and
possessing a body and mind. the world.
If it were so, it would be According to this view,
considered a part of the world observing the world from an
and would no longer be eternal and primordial perspective
implies a bounded contemplation
