Jun
24
“…we have made far too little fuss over the fact that we count the word ‘soul,’ ‘spirit’ as part of our own educated vocabulary. In comparison to that, it is a trifle that we don’t believe that our soul eats and drinks. In our language a whole mythology is laid down.”
Wittgenstein, 1949
remarks on Frazer’s The Golden Bough, quoted in Tambiah, Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality
