“The fundamental fact is that we lay down rules, a technique, for playing a game, and that then, when we follow the rules, things don’t turn out as we had assumed. So that we are, as it were, entangled in our own rules. This entanglement in our rules is what we want to understand: that is, to survey. … The civic status of a contradiction, or its status in civic life – that is the philosophical problem.”

– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

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