Language Wittgenstein

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    Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)