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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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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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If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.
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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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What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
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Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs
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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
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This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
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All mathematics is tautology.
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I am my world.
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Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
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The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
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Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain
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Language disguises thought.
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What can be shown, cannot be said.
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When philosophers use a word--knowledge, being, object, I, proposition, name--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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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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Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
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A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.
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