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Full Idea
Wittgenstein remarked that if you tried to doubt everything, you would not get as far as doubting anything.
Gist of Idea
Total doubt can't even get started
Source
report of Ludwig Wittgenstein (On Certainty [1951]) by Michael Williams - Problems of Knowledge Ch.14
Book Ref
Williams,Michael: 'Problems of Knowledge' [OUP 2001], p.159
3596 | Total doubt can't even get started [Wittgenstein, by Williams,M] |
4721 | If you are not certain of any fact, you cannot be certain of the meaning of your words either [Wittgenstein] |
3597 | Foundations need not precede other beliefs [Wittgenstein] |