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“The world is all that is the case. The world is the totality of facts, not of things.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (18891951)
“Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (18891951)
“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 (18891951)
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