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Wittgenstein reportedly (from Anscombe) used to say that the Tractatus was not all wrong: it was not like a bag of junk professing to be a clock, but like a clock that did not tell you the right time.

Which is perhaps more interesting than an ordinary clock anyway!

(and I might do part 2 later)



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