Wittgenstein

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    The world is all that is the case. The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150 years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)