8.18 ;;Quote: language is not complete, e.g. calculus; it is like an ancient city of many little streets surrounded by more regular suburbs
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9.20 ;;Quote: if someone says "Bring me a slab" it could mean the same as "Slab!"; its meaning is sometimes 1 word and sometimes 4
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11.23 ;;Quote: speaking a language is part of an activity, a language game; countless kinds of sentences, symbols, words
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20.40 ;;Quote: meaning is not the same as reference; e.g., when Mr. N. dies the person dies but not the meaning of Mr. N.
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22.47 ;;Quote: the correct answer to "Is the visual image of this tree composite?" is "That depends on the meaning of 'composite'"; i.e., reject the question
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29.60 ;;Quote: compare "Bring me the broom" with "Bring me the broomstick and its brush"; the decomposition is nonsensical
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31.65 ;;Quote: a language is things related to one another in many different ways; no one thing in common, e.g., language games
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31.66 ;;Quote: don't think about what's common about 'games', look; there are multifarious relationships continually changing
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32.67 ;;Quote: the things called 'games' form a family, and their similarities are family resemblances
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32.67 ;;Quote: the strength of a concept is like the strength of a thread; both depend on the overlapping of many fibers
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36.78 ;;Quote: can know how a clarinet sounds but not say what it is; similarly with the concept of 'games'
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39.84 ;;Quote: a word is not everywhere bounded by rules; what if a game was everywhere bounded by rules?
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39.84 ;;Quote: we can always imagine a doubt; e.g., of someone who believes an abyss may open up, but the doubt is not held by most
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P302 ;;Quote: to imagine someone else's pain, have to imagine pain which is not felt (in another's body) on the model of pain which is felt
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126.420 ;;Quote: one can image that people are automata, but just try to keep hold of this idea in the midst of your ordinary intercourse with others
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148.556 ;;Quote: say "X" and "Y" for negation but "XX" meant yes (turn 180 degrees) while "YY" meant no (shake head); same reference, different ideas
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156.604 ;;Quote: it is easy to have a false picture of recognition as comparing two impressions
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161.618 ;;Quote: in the sense in which I cannot fail to will (Augustine), I cannot try to will either (Wittgenstein)
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162.628 ;;Quote: voluntary movement is marked by the absence of surprise
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162.629 ;;Quote: we have foreknowledge of the future in predicting one's own voluntary movements
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224 ;;Quote: am I less certain that this man is in pain than that twice two is four? different kinds of certainty
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224+;;Quote: if you are certain, isn't it that you are shutting your eyes in face of doubt? They are shut
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226 ;;Quote: what has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life
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