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Philosophical Haiku

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

by Terence Green

World as facts, not things
Understand without knowing.
On the other hand…

It takes a brave man to declare that his ground-breaking work that people had hailed as a revolution in philosophy was muddle-headed, but that’s exactly what Wittgenstein did.

Born into a fabulously wealthy family in Vienna, as a young man he went to Britain, where at first he studied engineering at Manchester. At this time he noticed some intractable problems in the foundations of mathematics, so he decided to make them more tractable.

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