Logic Is No Constraint
To think of logic as constraining something is to imagine, or try to imagine, how things would be without the constraint. Since neither talk of an illogical world nor talk of illogical thought can be made sense of, the whole question cannot be meaningfully asked and so may be dismissed in good conscience: "in order to be able to draw a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable.... We cannot think what we cannot think; so what we cannot think we cannot say either" (Wittgenstein).... It is a sign of confusion to say either that the logicality of the world has its source in the structure of thought or that the logicality of thought has its source in the structure of the world—as though the logicality of thought and the logicality of the world were two different facts that need to be hooked together, rather than being two sides of the same fact. We cannot justify our language by pointing to its reflection of extralinguistic reality, because it is