The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155937   Message #3674566
Posted By: Ed T
04-Nov-14 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Dwindling BS section
Subject: RE: BS: Dwindling BS section
"But are there philosophical problems? The present position of English philosophy - my point of departure - originates, I believe, in the late Professor Ludwig Wittgenstein's doctrine that there are none; that all genuine problems are scientific problems; that the alleged propositions or theories of philosophy are pseudo-propositions or pseudo-theories; that they are not false (if they were false, their negations would be true propositions or theories) but strictly meaningless combinations of words, no more meaningful than the incoherent babbling of a child who has not yet learned to speak properly." 
― Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge