Weltlogik

Weltlogik is a German-language philosophical term used to describe the logic or rational structure through which the world is understood, disclosed, or constituted in human experience. The word combines Welt (world) and Logik (logic) and is not a formal branch of logic in the sense of mathematical logic. Instead, it is employed as a heuristic label in debates about how reality becomes intelligible, how language, perception, and culture organize the world, and how the preconditions of experience shape reasoning.

In practice, discussions of Weltlogik address questions such as: What are the constitutive assumptions that make the world legible to us? How does the world constrain or guide thought, interpretation, and inquiry? How does Weltlogik relate to ontology, epistemology, and phenomenology? The term is used more by certain German-language writers and in continental philosophy as a way to frame analyses of the pre-logical or pre-conceptual structures that underlie discourse, rather than as a precise methodological program.

Because there is no single, standardized definition, interpretations of Weltlogik vary. Some emphasize its role as a descriptive account of how thinkers habitually order experience; others treat it as a normative question about the rational contours of the world. It is often discussed in relation to conceptually close ideas such as Weltanschauung (worldview), preconditions of possibility, and the critique of metaphysical assumptions embedded in language and science.