Mathematics is a logical method.... Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.
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The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.
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Explanations come to an end somewhere.
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Don't think Look.
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Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life.
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