Quote of Ludwig Wittgenstein - The logic of the world is...
Biography - Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Austrian-British philosopher.
Born: 1889 - Died: 1951
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Austria
Born: 1889 - Died: 1951
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Austria
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
See also...
Quotes for: truth
To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.
Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.
Quotes about logic:
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.
The supreme task of the physicist is the discovery of the most general elementary laws from which the world-picture can be deduced logically. But there is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance, and this Einfühlung [literally, empathy or 'feeling one's way in'] is developed by experience.
Ludwig Wittgenstein also said...
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