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Means Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
- To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.
- The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be…
- Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.
- The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
- Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
- It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
- The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
- In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may…
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