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     What has to be explained is ◇◇◇ // this // : Why do we talk to our impression? ‒ ‒ You read, put yourself into a
state
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 of attention particular state of attention and say: “Something peculiar happens undoubtedly.” You are inclined to go on: “There is a certain smoothness about it”; but you feel that this [o|i]s only an inadequate description and that the experience can only stand for itself. “Something peculiar happens undoubted[k|l]y” is like saying, “I have had an experience.” But you don't wish to make a general statement independent of the particular experience you have had but rather a statement into which this experience enters.
 

(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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