„if the proposition of the assertoric language system is *activity* (admittedly this characteristic fades into a matter of course, since there is supposed to be only this assertoric linguistic activity), and if it is further true that this restricted pragmatic concept of language is to be *extended*, then philosophy as *activity*, namely as a philosophical propositional act, could also potentially be integrated into it; philosophical activity would then stand not absolutely but only relatively *outside* linguistic activity: namely outside depicting-asserting linguistic activity. On this presupposition, the general propositional form "This is how things stand" (TLP 4.5), monopolized in the TLP – declared to be the only pragmatic propositional variable (cf."