More from Ludwig Wittgenstein

  1. What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms? (p. 26)
  2. The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know. (p. 45)
  3. For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules - it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either. (…
  4. What I give is the morphology of the use of an expression. I show that it has kinds of uses of which you had not dreamed. In philosophy one…
  5. The idea that in order to get clear about the meaning of a general term one had to find the common element in all its applications has shac…
  6. A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the oppos…
  7. A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made clear in no matter what idiom. Part I(1)
  8. The problems are dissolved in the actual sense of the word - like a lump of sugar in water. (p.183)

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