Does philosophy reside in the unsayable or should it care only for precision? Carnap, Heidegger and the great divergence

Carnap’s vision of philosophy is for it to be airtight and true. He wants to think and speak with the utmost certainty, and logic is the means by which to do that.

For Heidegger, it’s the task of philosophy to take up the challenge of describing what existence is, what being itself is. That requires us to bend our thinking beyond the narrow constraints of language and logic, and to accept that plumbing the depths of existence requires more than language and logic.

‘The very idea of “logic” disintegrates in the vortex of a more original questioning,’ wrote Heidegger.