This man argued that not even God can know all the digits of pi in demonstrating the senselessness of quantifying infinity.
This man argued that not even God can know all the digits of pi in demonstrating the senselessness of quantifying infinity. He criticized skepticism for trying "to raise doubts where no questions can be asked." He also wrote that mathematics is a human invention and consists solely of extensions and intensions. This man compared one of his works to a ladder that must be (*) discarded after it is used, because it transcends the world and is therefore senseless. This man rejected private language because meaning only arises through the understanding of other people, as demonstrated in his beetle-in-the-box thought experiment. At the end of one work, he wrote, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." For 10 points, name this Austrian-born British philosopher and author of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations.
This man argued that not even God can know all the digits of pi in demonstrating the senselessness of quantifying infinity.
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein