Metaphysical Possibility

Famous quotes containing the words metaphysical and/or possibility:

“When philosophers use a word—”knowledge,” “being,” “object,” “I,” “proposition,” “name”—and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?—What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)