“What is your aim in Philosophy?”
“To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle” (Philosophical Investigations) - Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein thought that the pursuit of philosophy in its traditional sense is pointless. Philosophers who scoured far and wide for a structured logical form applicable to everything were deluded and wasting their time, much like a fly [...]

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