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The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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Philosopher Of Language
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The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
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What can be shown, cannot be said.
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All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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