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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 2h

And as for what one tells the time for—that doesn't come in here.') ii 5 e 364.

Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 5h

'But then doesn't our understanding reach beyond all the examples?'—A very queer expression, and a quite natural one!— But is that a//?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 8h

I stop short, look at the object or man questioningly or mistrustfully, say 'I find it all strange.'

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 11h

Then what am I doiag with that proposition?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 14h

But no squeezing, no forcing took place here.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 17h

If we look at the example in §i, we may perhaps get an inkling how much this general notion of the meaning of a word surrounds the working of language with a haze which makes clear vision impossible.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 20h

But let us really think out various different situations and conversations, and the ways in which that sentence will be uttered in them.—'I always discover a mental undertone; perhaps not always the same one.'

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 23h

And in the same way we also use the word 'to read' for a family of cases.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of course, one can reduce the description of the use of the word 'slab' to the statement that this word signifies this object.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Suppose, however, that he does not stick to a single method of transcribing, but alters his method according to a simple rule: if he has once written n for Ay then he writes o for the next A, p for the next, and so on.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As, from pain in the hand to pain in the arm.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But, after all, the game is supposed to be denned by the rules! So, if a rule of the game prescribes that the kings are to be used for drawing lots before a game of chess, then that is an essential part of the game.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It throws light on our concept of meaning something.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If the latter then the identity of the piece is something to do with the game.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nor should I ever have spoken of a 'feeling of conviction' here, but should have said: I considered a while and then plumped for its being quarter past five.— But what did I go by?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Take the case of a pupil who lias so far not taken part in the training: if he is shewn a written word he will sometimes produce some sort of sound, and here and there it happens 'accidentally' to be roughly right.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I should like to put the question 'Am I aware of the spatial character, the depth of an object (of this cupboard for instance), the whole time lxi I am seeing it?' Do I, so to speak,/*??/ it the whole time?—But put the question in the third person.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These were the kind of circumstances.—But do you really not see that you were all the same disposed in a way which, though impalpable, is characteristic of guessing the time, like being surrounded by a characteristic atmosphere?— Yes;

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Let yourself be struck by the existence of such a thing as our language-game of: confessing the motive of my action.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In this case some drawings make sense, some not.—What if I imagine senseless combinations of words?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

2.0271 Objects are what is unalterable and subsistent; their configuration is what is changing and unstable.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why is just this the pattern of variation in loudness and tempo?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As if our logic were, so to speak, a logic for a vacuum.—Whereas logic does not treat of language—or of thought—in the sense in which a natural science treats of a natural phenomenon, and the most that can be said is that we construct ideal languages.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If what he said was true, didn't the connexion exist—and is he not for all that making one which did not exist?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Negate something and observe what you are doing.—Do you perhaps inwardly shake your head?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When I say the ABC to myself, what is the criterion of my doing the same as someone else who silently repeats it to himself?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It becomes queer when we are led to think that the future development must in some way already be present in the act of grasping the use and yet isn't present.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So what harm is done?——'But the point is, when one utters the sentence in the usual way something else, quite definite, takes place.'—What takes place is not this 'parade of the meanings before one's mind'.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

4.43 We can express agreement with truth-possibilities by correlating the mark 'T' (true) with them in the schema. The absence of this mark means disagreement.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Of course the latter does not explain anything more: it simply invites me to apply the picture I am given.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

6.021 A number is the exponent of an operation.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Correcter prognoses wiD generally issue from the judgments of those with better knowledge of mankind.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For it there is nothing to distinguish a thing, I cannot distinguish it, since otherwise it would be distinguished after all.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Frege regarded the propositions of logic as names, and their arguments as the affixes of those names.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(Fine shades of behaviour.—Why are they important* They have important consequences.)

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'If a proposition too is conceived as a picture of a possible state of affairs and is said to shew the possibility of the state of affairs, still the most that the proposition can do is what a painting or relief or film does:

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And here already there is a normal and an abnormal learner's reaction.—At first perhaps we guide his hand in writing out the series o to 9;

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That might be the case with Siamese twins, for instance.)

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When I continue the interrupted sentence and say that this was how I had been going to continue it, this is like following out a line of thought from brief notes.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So in some sense or other it was there after all!——But in what sense?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A dog believes his master is at the door.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One could say “every view has its charm”, but that would be false.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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

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Ludwig Wittgenstein @randomwittgenstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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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