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July 22, 2007

the common sense answer

Philosophy can be said to consist in three activities: To see the common sense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer becomes unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the common sense answer.


Wittgenstein

Posted by amin at July 22, 2007 12:29 AM