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TIL: scholars Karl Popper and Wittgenstein once argued whether philosophical problems existed. After Popper said moral rules were legitimate problems, Wittgenstein pointed a fire poker at Popper, daring him to give an example, to which Popper replied: Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers

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