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∣ Sincerity in some people may have only one level; in others various ˇit has several levels.
Many
The
 English ˇpeople, e.g., not only speak & write what the government wants them to, but they don't allow themselves to think anything else. Hence the phenomenon that what they speak is, in a certain sense, sincere, though the mental activity of suppressing their natural thoughts ˇin themselves is insincere. | an insincerity.| And just
15
in this country you here
particularly often
again & again
 the question: “Don't you think he ˇso & so is sincere?” – because they have a
method
way
 of
getting round
avoiding
 the
ordinary indictment
normal judgement
 of ˇanybody being insincere. // that he is insincere. //

 

(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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