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The Paradox of Mastery

The Paradox of Mastery

Update: 2025-05-30
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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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The Paradox of Mastery

The Paradox of Mastery

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