"Fare well!" "A whole world of pain is contained in these words." How can it be contained in them? — It is bound up in them. The words are like an ac… - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Fare well!" "A whole world of pain is contained in these words." How can it be contained in them? — It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.

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About Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-born philosopher who spent much of his life in England.

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Native Name: Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
Alternative Names: Ludwig Joseph Johann Wittgenstein Wittgenstein
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"303. "I can only believe that someone else is in pain, but I know it if I am." — Yes: one can make the decision to say "I believe he is in pain" instead of "He is in pain". But that is all. — — What looks like an explanation here, or like a statement about a mental process, is in truth an exchange of one expression for another which, while we are doing philosophy, seems the more appropriate one.
Just try — in a real case — to doubt someone else's fear or pain."

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