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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)
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Though a state of affairs that would contravene the laws of physics can be represented by us spatially, one that would contravene the laws of geometry cannot.
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Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.)
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We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course, there is then no question left, and just this is the answer. The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.
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What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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Born:
April 26, 1889
Died:
April 29, 1951
(aged 62)
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