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The rules of logical syntax must go without saying, once we know how each individual sign signifies.

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 The rules of logical syntax must go without saying, once we know how each individual sign signifies.

Mar 29,2024

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If objects are given, then at the same time we are given all objects. If elementary propositions are given, then at the

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 If objects are given, then at the same time we are given all objects. If elementary propositions are given, then at the

Mar 05,2024

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All wishes, all aspirations, all hopes, all fears, all doubts, all determinations grow stronger and stronger precisely

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 All wishes, all aspirations, all hopes, all fears, all doubts, all determinations grow stronger and stronger precisely

Feb 21,2024

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Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of

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 Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of

Feb 17,2024

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An intelligent man is not one who can merely reason correctly, but one whose mind is open to perceiving objective contents,

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 An intelligent man is not one who can merely reason correctly, but one whose mind is open to perceiving objective contents,

Jan 18,2024

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Speech is a powerful master, which by means of the smallest and most invisible body accomplishes most divine deeds. For it

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 Speech is a powerful master, which by means of the smallest and most invisible body accomplishes most divine deeds. For it

Jan 04,2024

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To ask whether a formal concept exists is nonsensical. For no proposition can be the answer to such a question.

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 To ask whether a formal concept exists is nonsensical. For no proposition can be the answer to such a question.

Nov 20,2023

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For myself, working between two languages as far apart as English and Chinese, I cannot help but feel my visibility when I

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 For myself, working between two languages as far apart as English and Chinese, I cannot help but feel my visibility when I

Sep 20,2023

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I want to linger on the word “frame.” What turns a walk into a strut is precisely a frame, even if the frame is only a

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 I want to linger on the word “frame.” What turns a walk into a strut is precisely a frame, even if the frame is only a

Jun 15,2023

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The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the

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 The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the

Mar 25,2023

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Asking whether and how a proposition can be verified is only a special form of the question “How do you mean?” The answer is

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 Asking whether and how a proposition can be verified is only a special form of the question “How do you mean?” The answer is

Mar 07,2023

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What is a poet? An unhappy man who conceals profound anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so fashioned that when sighs

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 What is a poet? An unhappy man who conceals profound anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so fashioned that when sighs

Mar 04,2023

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Tao called Tao is not Tao. Names can name no lasting name. Nameless: the origin of heaven and earth. Naming: the mother of

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 Tao called Tao is not Tao. Names can name no lasting name. Nameless: the origin of heaven and earth. Naming: the mother of

Mar 03,2023

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We can also think of the whole process of using words … as one of those games by means of which children learn their

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 We can also think of the whole process of using words … as one of those games by means of which children learn their

Feb 06,2023

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There is no philologist without philology in the original sense of the word; that is, without interest in grammar. Philology

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 There is no philologist without philology in the original sense of the word; that is, without interest in grammar. Philology

Jan 19,2023

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I love this generation. I hope we all die.
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 I love this generation. I hope we all die.

Jan 08,2023

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Gretchen: I think it’s one of the things that distinguishes a linguistic approach to grammar from a “I’m taking this high

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 Gretchen: I think it’s one of the things that distinguishes a linguistic approach to grammar from a “I’m taking this high

Dec 30,2022

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#quotes #language #Podcasts #linguistics #syntax #lingthusiasm #episode 47 #adjectives #morphology

Words can be hard to utter: those, for example, with which one renounces something, or confesses a weakness. (Words are

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 Words can be hard to utter: those, for example, with which one renounces something, or confesses a weakness. (Words are

Dec 17,2022

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Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another.

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 Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another.

Dec 04,2022

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#quotes #language #communication #media #metaphor #McLuhan #Marshall McLuhan #The Gutenberg Galaxy

It is in language that an expectation and its fulfilment make contact.

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 It is in language that an expectation and its fulfilment make contact.

Nov 15,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #language #Ludwig Wittgenstein #Philosophical Investigations #expectations #norms

Suppose someone said: ‘What do you believe, Wittgenstein? Are you a sceptic? Do you know whether you will survive death?’

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 Suppose someone said: ‘What do you believe, Wittgenstein? Are you a sceptic? Do you know whether you will survive death?’

Mar 14,2022

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It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which

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 It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which

Feb 01,2022

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#quotes #words #philosophy #language #ethics #values #George Eliot #Adam Bede #principles #convictions

Naming is not yet a move in a language-game – any more than putting a piece in its place on the board is a move in chess.

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 Naming is not yet a move in a language-game – any more than putting a piece in its place on the board is a move in chess.

Jan 28,2022

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#quotes #words #philosophy #language #Ludwig Wittgenstein #Philosophical Investigations #names #naming #conventions

Next to taking off all my clothes, owning nothing in the world, not the least thing, and then throwing myself in the water,

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 Next to taking off all my clothes, owning nothing in the world, not the least thing, and then throwing myself in the water,

Dec 21,2021

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