Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klrung der Gedanken.Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, sondern eine Ttigkeit.Ein philosophisches Werk besteht wesentlich aus Erluterungen.Das Resultat der Philosophie sind nicht philosophische Stze, sondern das Klarwerden von Stzen.Die Philosophie soll die Gedanken, die sonst, gleichsam, trbe und verschwommen sind, klar machen und scharf abgrenzen.4.112The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts.Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.The result of philosophy is not a number of "philosophical propositions", but to make propositions clear.Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein was a 19th-century Austrian philosopher and logician. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality