Wittgenstein's Tractatus establishes that causal explanation is an intra-world logical relation, making 'cause of the world' a malformed proposition rather than an unanswered question.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who fundamentally changed how people think about language and meaning in the 20th century. He argued that many philosophical problems arise from misunderstanding how words actually work in everyday life, rather than from deep metaphysical mysteries. His ideas influenced not just philosophy but also mathematics, logic, and even how people approach psychology and artificial intelligence today.