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> Pascal said ‘I feel like a dog that has been run over.’ Wittgenstein told his friend ‘You don’t know what a dog that has been run over feels like.’ Although t
by fnord77 5y ago
> Pascal said ‘I feel like a dog that has been run over.’ Wittgenstein told his friend ‘You don’t know what a dog that has been run over feels like.’ Although the philosopher’s response is unfriendly in the extreme, it does make a logical point. Strictly speaking, a human can’t know what a run-over dog feels like.
That's not a good example of "Bullshit". It's a colorful metaphor based on what we would imagine the dog feels like.
- earleybird 5y agoPretty sure Wittgenstein was trolling his friend. But a clever man would have known. . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo