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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ludwig Wittgenstein was born on April 26, 1889 in Vienna, Austria. He was a writer, known for The Year of Living Locked Up (2020), M.A. Numminen Sings Wittgenstein (1994) and As from Afar (2013). He died on April 29, 1951 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.

In his youth, he attended a Realschule in Linz, Austria. From 1903 to 1904, one of his fellow students at the school was Adolf Hitler. Although the two were born only six days apart, Hitler was two years behind Wittgenstein. It is unknown whether they knew each other personally or possessed any memory of one another in later life.
Austrian-British philosopher.

It has no meaning to say that a game has always been played wrong.
The limits of my language are the limits of my World.
Of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence.
Make the following experiment: say "It's cold here" and mean "It's warm here". Can you do it? - And what are you doing as you do it? And is there only one way of doing it?
What gives us so much as the idea that living beings, things, can feel? Is it that my education has led me to it by drawing my attention to feelings in myself, and now I transfer the idea to objects outside myself? That I recognize that there is something there (in me) which I can call "pain" without getting into conflict with the way other people use this word? - I do not transfer my idea to stones, plants, etc. Couldn't I imagine having frightful pains and turning to stone while they lasted? Well, how do I know, if I shut my eyes, whether I have not turned into a stone? And if that has happened, in what sense will the stone have the pains? In what sense will they be ascribable to the stone? And why need the pain have a bearer at all here?! And can one say of the stone that it has a soul and that is what has the pain? What has a soul, or pain, to do with a stone? Only of what behaves like a human being can one say that it has pains.

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