Ludwig Wittgenstein
Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. … They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than the Beautiful.)
You tell me. That second part in particular.
But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions than that they no longer lie side by side. The onlooker who doesn’t know the difficulty of the task might well think in such a case that nothing at all had been achieved.
I dare someone to bring this down out of the clouds.
Self-evidence, of which Russell has said so much, can only be discarded in logic by language itself preventing every logical mistake. That logic is a priori consists in the fact that we cannot think illogically.
Just out of curiosity, how close does this come to common sense?
The book deals with the problems of philosophy and shows, as I believe, that the method of formulating these problems rests on the misunderstanding of the logic of our language.
Its limitations say.
The man who said that one cannot step into the same river twice said something wrong; one can step into the same river twice.
Word games, or, this time, is he actually on to something.
Certainty is as it were a tone of voice in which one declares how things are, but one does not infer from the tone of voice that one is justified.
See, I told you.