Ludwig Wittgenstein

And it is nonsensical to speak of the total number of objects.

If you merely repeat the sentence after someone else, say in order to mock his way of speaking, then you say it without this act of meaning.'—When we are doing philosophy it can sometimes look like that.

Of course this way of showing that the propositions of logic are tautologies is not at all essential to logic, if only because the propositions from which the proof starts must show without any proof that they are tautologies.

so much is obvious!—Of course; I only wished to say: the effect of any further explanation depends on his veaction.

This despotic demand?

Theory of knowledge is the philosophy of psychology.

.' I am describing my own state of mind—but this description is indirectly an assertion of the fact believed.'—As in certain circumstances I describe a photograph in order to describe the thing it is a photograph of.

We predicate of the thing what lies in the method of representing it.

Could a machine think?——Could it be in pain?—Well, is the human body to be called such a machine?

But he is destructible, and his name does not lose its meaning when the bearer is destroyed.—An example of something corresponding to the name, and without which it would have no meaning, is a paradigm that is used in connexion with the name in the language-game.

It was not on the ground of observations of my behaviour that I said I was going to take two powders.

are about the net and not about what the net describes.

They are trained for this purpose.

In the sense in which I can ever bring anything about (such as stomach-ache through over-eating), I can also bring about an act of willing, In this sense I bring about the act of willing to swirn by jumping into the water.

On the other hand, however, someone might explain to me that cursing was effective only when one had a clear image of the man or spoke his name out loud.

Augustine says in the Confessions 'quid est ergo tempus?

2.174 A picture cannot, however, place itself outside its representational form.

Should it be said that I am using a word whose meaning I don't know, and so am talking nonsense?—Say what you choose, so long as it does not prevent you from seeing the facts.

And compare this case: I shew him samples of different shades of blue and say: 'The colour that is common to all these is what I call 'blue' '.

'The line intimates to me which way I am to go' is only a paraphrase of: it is my last arbiter for the way I am to go.

Religion teaches that the soul can exist when the body has disintegrated.

'What happens when a man suddenly understands?'—The question is badly framed.

(High is high— it is a matter of psychology that one sometimes sees, and sometimes hears it.)

o'clock', and in a more or less confident tone of voice, and so on.

Then we do not in general forget the possibility of a distortion of the parts and so on.——We do talk like that, however, when we are wondering at the way we can use a machine to symbolize a given way of moving—since it can also move in quite different ways.

The 'aspect-blind' will have an altogether different relationship to pictures from ours.

Experience, that is varied observation, can inform us of them, and they too are incapable of general formulation; only in scattered cases can one arrive at a correct and fruitful judgment, establish a fruitful connexion.

To this end we shall constantly be giving prominence to distinctions which our ordinary forms of language easily make us overlook.

We might, for example, be indifferent to everything about its movements except for the number of loops it made in a certain time.

This table might be said to take over here the role of memory and association in other cases.

'It's true I say 'Now I am having such-and-such an image', but the words 'I am having' are merely a sign to someone else; the description of the image is a complete account of the imagined world.'— You mean: the words 'I am having' are like 'I say! .

4.123 A property is internal if it is unthinkable that its object should not possess it.

are only logical constructions out of our sense-data.

Or, again, what, at any stage we are to call 'being in accord' with that sentence (and with the mean-ing you then put into the sentence — whatever that may have consisted in).

4.016 In order to understand the essential nature of a proposition, we should consider hieroglyphic script, which depicts the facts that it describes. And alphabetic script developed out of it without losing what was essential to depiction.

This might, no doubt, be a remark about the teaching of arithmetic in our schools,—but also an observation about the concept of the multiplication table.

Is this language somehow too coarse and material for what we want to say?

6.2341 It is the essential characteristic of mathematical method that it employs equations. For it is because of this method that every proposition of mathematics must go without saying.

I ought to be able to refer to the experience directly, and not only indirectly.

Now the only possible expression of our experience is what before perhaps seemed, or even was, a useless specification when once we had the copy.

is deaf;

('The sky looks threatening': is this about the present or the future?) Both; not side-by-side, however, but about the one via the other.

— Now, how did the sound come?

But why is the feeling the point?

The primitive language-game which children are taught needs no justification; attempts at justification need to be rejected.

For many mathematical proofs do lead us to say that we cannot imagine something which we believed we could imagine.

.'—All this points to a wider context.

Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without colour and even perhaps a face reduced in scale struck them as inhuman.

Compare: 'When did your pains get less?' and 'When did you stop understanding that word?' (b) Suppose it were asked: 'When do you know how to play chess?

How queer that there should be such a thing! Phrased like this, emphasized like this, heard in this way, this sentence is the first of a series in which a transition is made to these sentences, pictures, actions.