Indeed how might it be if things revealed their colors only… - Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Indeed how might it be if things revealed their colors only when (in our terms) no light fell on them - if, for example, the sky were black? Could we not then say, only by black light do they appear to us in their full colors?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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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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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

a nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

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