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Philosophieren ist: falsche Argumente zurückweisen.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993)

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Source: Philosophizing is: rejecting false arguments. / The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.
Work: Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951, 1993
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Ch. 9: Philosophy, p. 165 | Corresponding to TS 213, Kapitel 87, 409

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