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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Philosopher whose private language argument is cited as a way to understand social constructs and calm down debates about cultural meaning

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"A lot of people would probably freak out less if they looked into the private language argument. Wittgenstein calms you the fuck down and teaches you to say 'Yeah, people will disagree, but shit we're all humans so no point in pissing each other off.'"
"but of which one cannot speak, one must remain silent, as wittgenstein liked to say"
i had sex with 23 women yesterday · u/mybigfatgreekaffect · ↑131 · 2023-08-22
"recently i almost cried when i realized i will never fully understand the life cycle of a mushroom and i'm probably too stupid to get wittgenstein"
"like wittgenstein and (unlike nietzsche) the prose is not high style -- that's for sure."
grothendieck : obscenity vs love · u/fibreel-garishta · ↑52 · 2022-11-23
"Lizzy Wittgenstein"
Broke: Charlotte Sartre. Woke: · u/pufferfishsh · ↑22 · 2019-11-28
"Wittgenstein's Nephew is Thomas Bernhard's recollection of Paul Wittgenstein - a close friend and nephew of the renowned philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein."
I read 'Wittgenstein's Nephew' by Thomas Bernhard · u/Travis-Walden · ↑22 · 2023-04-22
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