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  It would be a genuine mathematical problem: ‘construct the 2-gon’. And a [M|m]athematician might solve the problem i.e. devise a construction which on such & such grounds we should could hardly help calling “construction of the 2-gon”. •


 

(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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