Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meantso that he constantly called different things by that namebut nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of painin short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism

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Ludwig Wittgenstein was a 19th-century Austrian philosopher and logician. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Knowledge — The pursuit of learning, understanding, and intellectual growth

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