1
“I don't know whether the pentagram fits the pentagon. If so the diagonals of a pentagon must give a pentagram. Let's try it.”



     Is to see the figure an experiment? Or to see side by side the figures
?
But doesn't it teach us something?


     “It never struck me.”

Editorial notes

1) Ms-148, page 14v contains figures and calculations which are not included in the transcription.

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.



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