Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because the… - Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. (Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.

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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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The proposition constructs a world with the help of a logical scaffolding, and therefore one can actually see in the proposition all the logical features possessed by reality if it is true. One can draw conclusions from a false proposition

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood.

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