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Describe the aroma of coffee – why can’t it be done? Do we miss the words? What is the natural expression of an intention? –Look at a cat when it stalks a bird; or at a beast when it wants to escape. When we do philosophy we are like savages, primitive people, who hear expressions of the civilized men, put a false interpretation of them, and then draw the queerest conclusion from it.
Describe the aroma of coffee – why can’t it be done? Do we miss the words? What is the natural expression of an intention? –Look at a cat when it stalks a bird; or at a beast when it wants to escape. When we do philosophy we are like savages, primitive people, who hear expressions of the civilized men, put a false interpretation of them, and then draw the queerest conclusion from it.
Approximate author period: c. 1920 AD · modern
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- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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- Approximate author period: c. 1920 AD · modern
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Supplied reference B; unit 1050; PDF page 112; printed attribution: Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
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