Ludwig WittgensteinMost of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
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False propositions are statements that don’t make sense. For example, “All bachelors are unmarried.” This is false because some men are married, while others are not. The proposition that “All bachelors are unmarried” is nonsensical because it doesn’t make sense to say that some bachelors are unmarried.
Source: Tractatus Logicophilosophicus
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