The results of philosophy are the uncovering of one or another piece of plain nonsense and of bumps that the understanding has got by running its head up against the limits of language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein Modern

Philosophy of language

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Philosophical Investigations, Part I, §119

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1953 (posthumous)

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https://books.google.com/books?id=c7N2CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA51

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