When The World Confuses Us, It's Time To Start Doing Philosophy
A Simple Philosophical Exercise
Try this with me: pick a random word (e.g., cookie) and say it to yourself fifty times. At some point, the word will sound so strange to you that you might start laughing. Wittgenstein wrote in his Philosophical Investigations:
“Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday”.
And when something as ordinary as the word cookie sends you down …
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