Ep 158: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 1
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Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophy Is Pointless
Ludwig Wittgenstein's first work, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, is a barely legible list of statements set out like some sort of formal proof. He basically concluded that the purported subject matter of philosophy referred to stuff which were outside the facts of reality that we get from our senses and reason. So it was pointless to talk about those things because words could not properly label them. They may or may not exist, but we can't speak about them in some technical sense, so much for Wittgenstein.
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