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Ludwig Wittgenstein On Certainty
#253 “At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.”
#174. “I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.”
#176. “Instead of “I know it” one may say in some cases “That’s how it is—rely upon it.” In some cases, however “I learned it years and years ago”; and sometimes: “I am sure it is so.”
#189. “At some point one has to pass from explanation to mere description.”
#191. “Well, if everything speaks for an hypothesis and nothing against it – is it then certainly true? One may designate it as such.—But does it certainly agree with reality, with the facts?—With this question you are already going round in a circle.”
#207. “Strange coincidence, that every man whose skull has been opened had a brain!”
#253 “At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.”
#174. “I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.”
#176. “Instead of “I know it” one may say in some cases “That’s how it is—rely upon it.” In some cases, however “I learned it years and years ago”; and sometimes: “I am sure it is so.”
#189. “At some point one has to pass from explanation to mere description.”
#191. “Well, if everything speaks for an hypothesis and nothing against it – is it then certainly true? One may designate it as such.—But does it certainly agree with reality, with the facts?—With this question you are already going round in a circle.”
#207. “Strange coincidence, that every man whose skull has been opened had a brain!”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language (1889-1951), On Certainty (Über Gewissheit), J. & J. Harper Editions, New York, 1969.
