“But are there philosophical problems? The present position of English philosophy - my point of departure - originates, I believe, in the late Professor Ludwig Wittgenstein's doctrine that there are none; that all genuine problems are scientific problems; that the alleged propositions or theories of philosophy are pseudo-propositions or pseudo-theories; that they are not false (if they were false, their negations would be true propositions or theories) but strictly meaningless combinations of words, no more meaningful than the incoherent babbling of a child who has not yet learned to speak properly.”
― Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
― Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”
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“There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics.”
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“Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic”
― On Certainty
― On Certainty
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