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Elementary propositions consist of names.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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Vienna
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Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
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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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If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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