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Let's do a @threadapalooza about Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, a philosophical prodigy who started as a formal logician and ended as a kind of avant-garde artist, sage, and Zen-like monk. Throughout his life, he was obsessed with language.
Here is Wittgenstein in the second half of his career, having distanced himself from his Tractatus (the work that launched him to global fame): "Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry." (Philosophie dürfte man eigentlich nur dichten.) 2/
Wittgenstein started out a #positivist (focused on distinguishing between valid propositions and nonsensical ones). But he ends up concluding that language is far more more robust and meaningful than what the analytic categories of sense and nonsense can say about it. 3
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