"If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it woul… - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative."

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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Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

We predicate of the thing what lies in the method of representing it. Impressed by the possibility of a comparison, we think we are perceiving a state of affairs of the highest generality.

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