This procedure selecting the simplest law, however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.
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Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life.Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.
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The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.
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Everything that can be said can be said clearly.
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Mathematics is a logical method.... Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.
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