5 Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Epistemology

Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes on epistemology

23. If I cannot say a priori what elementary propositions there are, then the attempt to do so must lead to obvious nonsense. (5.5571)

62. 144. The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

63. 205. If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.

66. 253. At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.

69. 378. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.