"When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote"
"Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy."
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Source: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”
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