For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Only describe, don't explain. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Only describe, don't explain.
When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly . - Ludwig Wittgenstein
When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly .
How small a thought it takes to fill a life. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
We learn by rearranging what we know. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
We learn by rearranging what we know.
All I know is what I have words for. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
All I know is what I have words for.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.
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