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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 24m

'Tell me, what was going on in you when you uttered the words .

Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 3h

What we are supplying are really remarks on the natural history of human beings; we are not contributing curiosities however, but observations which no one has doubted, but which have escaped remark only because they are always before our eyes.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 6h

They serve to explain our thoughts to us.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 9h

Does he do the same when he carries out an order in (a) and the corresponding one in (b)?—Yes and no.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 12h

Even in the hypothesis the pattern is not what you think.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 15h

No; my description only made sense if it was to be understood symbolically.—I should have said: This is how it strikes me.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 18h

Compare a concept with a style of painting.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The difference lay in the difference of situation.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1 1 have translated the German translation which Wittgenstein used rather than the original.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The verb of a proposition is not 'is true' or 'is false', as Frege thought: rather, that which 'is true' must already contain the verb.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So, in accordance with these rules, which deal with signs, we write the series x, /'x, /'/'x, /'/'/'x, ..., in the following way /0'x, /0+1'x, /0+1+1'x, /0+1+1+1'x, ...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Have you tried saying the word in a great variety of contexts?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So the use of this word stands in need of a justification which everybody understands.—And it would not help either to say that it need not be a sensation; that when he writes 'S', he has something—and that is all that can be said.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Think here of a special kind of illusion which throws light on these matters.—I go for a walk in the environs of a city with a friend.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That fire was used for purification is clear.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(What would it mean to say 'What this musical theme tells me is itself'?) 5 24.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Does he do the same when he carries out an order in (a) and the corresponding one in (b)?—Yes and no.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Think of the fact that one can predict one's own future action by an expression of intention.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The character of the belief in the uniformity of nature can perhaps be seen most clearly in the case in which we fear what we expect.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What could justify the certainty better than success?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

6.44 It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can easily imagine someone always doubting before he opened his front door whether an abyss did not yawn behind it, and making sure about it before he went through the door (and he might on some occasion prove to be right)—but that does not make me doubt in the same case.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But: 'In spite of everything that he did, I held fast to the belief.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2.014 Objects contain the possibility of all situations.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is it experience that tells me that this sort of game is the usual consequence of such an act of intending?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But this can mean no more than that in our game of chess we only check the king.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And so, too, a corpse seems to us quite inaccessible to pain.—Our attitude to what is alive and to what is dead, is not the same.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Suppose everyone does say about himself that he knows what pain is only from his own pain.—Not that people really say that, or are even prepared to say it.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

4.465 The logical product of a tautology and a proposition says the same thing as the proposition. This product, therefore, is identical with the proposition. For it is impossible to alter what is essential to a symbol without altering its sense.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It would be possible to say instead 'such and such is the case', 'this is the situation', and so on.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What is it like to say something to oneself; what happens here?— How am I to explain it?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And now I want to know: how does one employ the expression 'as it were to say something to oneself'?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He need not know, for instance, that I had already opened my mouth to speak.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you have constantly to be ready for the tug of his hand, and must also take care not to stumble when he gives an unexpected tug.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The picture which the answers to these questions give us shews what gets treated grammatically as a state here.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

('A knows that p is the case', has no sense if p is a tautology.)

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All this would be guessing at thoughts; and the fact that it does not actually happen does not make thought any more hidden than the unperceived physical proceedings.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

5.42 It is self-evident that C, z, etc. are not relations in the sense in which right and left etc. are relations.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

To a human being who meets him in ordinary circumstances?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

—Very well; and now let us look and see what your searching really consists in.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(2) Sometimes we say that C ceased to fit into H at such-and-such a time.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

((Remark about the negation of an a priori proposition.)) 252.

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