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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
Aphorist
Architectural Theoretician
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Philosopher Of Language
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Vienna
Austria
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Language
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A picture is a model of reality.
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Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
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Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.
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What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
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Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
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For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
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Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.
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Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
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Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
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If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
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