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by samhw 1515 days ago
> You can't start with the math load that an EE student gets with a broad, general audience.

Yeah, it's Wittgenstein's 'ladder', from the Tractatus:

> My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has climbed out on them, over them. (He must - so to speak - throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.)