Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus starts with the statement “The world is everything that is the case”. I’ve never got far past that sentence, being diverted into pondering whether it’s a synthetic or analytic a-priori truth and crashing my operating system. Anyway, it serves to highlight the difficulty with the meaning of the word “case”.

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During a recent car journey my wife posed me the following question

- ‘If you were to go back in time and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be?’
It’s a great question - (especially after passing on future lottery numbers and racing tips had been out ruled), what personal decisions would you change, and more interestingly, what would then be the ripple effect on the rest of your life?

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