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is used in a way to express an opinion
which we reject. The opinion e.g.
that all other people except A (or myself) are
shaming when they say that they have
t.. Or It
seems that I want to s the
solipsist wants to say of them that they haven't got
t. i.e. that he
wants to say of them what that which the sentence
‘they haven't got
t.’ says in the
ordinary nota language. Whereas what
he realy wishes to do is to change the notation.
Analogous when the idealist says that the tree doesn't
exist when nobody looks at it. He is prompted to say this
but the his sentence in ordinary language
expresses a view which he isn't at all keen on
holding. He doesnt wish to say that
the tree in the sense in which it might vanish while we look at it
actually alway vanish as soon as everybody
turns its the[y|i]r backs on
it. But he is not able to overcome the difficulty of
expression which consists in his expressing himself as though
t in the phraseology in which views about
things are uttered in ordinary language instead of the
phraseology of grammar; i.e.
2) Immagine 3) Think1 of Jekyl & Hyde. In which cases would we talk of two persons inhabiting the same body? Memories. Immagine my memory today to leave out yesterday the day before the day before yesterday etc. but tomorrow remembering yesterday etc. We could Immagine everybody getting two names for the odd & even days of his life because of memory leaving out every other day. |
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