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If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

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  16. It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something – a form – in common with it. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
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  27. It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all….. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  28. I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
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