Now what is the thing he didn't draw? Well, the construction of the pentagon. – But what's this look like?
     ‘But the sentence simply says that there isn't such a thing & that therefore he can't have drawn it.’
     Is it then analogous to: Smith can't have
drawn a Centaur? – No. – Or is it like saying: he can't have drawn a woohoo, because there isn't such a thing? Let's see! This is the one answer of which you can say that I want you to give.

(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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