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The Paradox of Mastery
Manage episode 485700484 series 3373672
In 1921, an Austrian philosopher named Ludwig Wittgenstein concluded his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with the following passage:
“My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.)”In simple terms, Wittgenstein is arguing the following...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook called my book "a powerful call to action to think deeply about what lights you up."
You can get it today on a big sale!
329 episodes
Manage episode 485700484 series 3373672
In 1921, an Austrian philosopher named Ludwig Wittgenstein concluded his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with the following passage:
“My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.)”In simple terms, Wittgenstein is arguing the following...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook called my book "a powerful call to action to think deeply about what lights you up."
You can get it today on a big sale!
329 episodes
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