Tuesday, February 12, 2008

"..." 19

"Philosophy is the pedantry that ensues when language leads men astray."


2/15 update:
"Philosophers often behave like little children who scribble some marks on a piece of paper at random and then ask the grown-up 'What's that?' — It happened like this: the grown-up had drawn pictures for the child several times and said: 'this is a man', 'this is a house', etc. And then the child makes some marks too and asks: What's this then?"

—Wittgenstein

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