 | T. Binkley - Gardening - 1973 - 244 pages
...he says into "plain English." In § 531 he points out that "We speak of understanding a sentence in the sense in which it can be replaced by another which...also in the sense in which it cannot be replaced by another." And in § 532, he continues: Then has "understanding" two different meanings here? - I would... | |
 | Herman Parret, Jacques Bouveresse - Philosophy - 1981 - 462 pages
...offers. There is, for example, Wittgenstein's observation that We speak of understanding a sentence in the sense in which it can be replaced by another which...replaced by another.) In the one case the thought in the sentence is something common to different sentences; in the other, something that is expressed... | |
 | James Gribble - Education - 1983 - 196 pages
...Wittgenstein's other sense of 'understanding a sentence', in which 'we speak of understanding a sentence in which it can be replaced by another which says the same', in which 'the thought in the sentence is common to different sentences'. In many areas of discourse... | |
 | Philip Michael Dwyer - Philosophy - 1990 - 242 pages
...expression or embodiment. In the Investigations Wittgenstein says: We speak of understanding a sentence in the sense in which it can be replaced by another which...sense in which it cannot be replaced by any other. (Anymore than one musical theme can be replaced by another.) In the one case the thought in the sentence... | |
 | Samuel Fleischacker - Philosophy - 1992 - 280 pages
...the quotation frbm Wittgenstein at the end of chapter four We speak of understanding a sentence in the sense in which it can be replaced by another which...one musical theme can be replaced by another.)... Then has "understanding" two different meanings here?—I would rather say that these kinds of use... | |
 | William Langland, George Economou - Poetry - 1996 - 304 pages
...of the predicament that enthralls the translator of poetry: We speak of understanding a sentence in the sense in which it can be replaced by another which...also in the sense in which it cannot be replaced by another. (Any more than one musical phrase can be replaced by another.) In the one case the thought... | |
 | Manfred Frank - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 256 pages
...a sentence in the sense in which it can be replaced by another sentence which says the same thing; but also in the sense in which it cannot be replaced by another sentence. (As little as a musical theme can be replaced by another theme). In the first case... | |
 | D.J. Richter - Medical - 2000 - 192 pages
...10-131. "Cf Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations §531: We speak of understanding a sentence in the sense in which it can be replaced by another which...replaced by another.) In the one case the thought in the sentence is something common to di Herein sentences; in the other, something that is expressed... | |
 | William H. Brenner - Philosophy - 1999 - 204 pages
...And there is vatiety within each case as welL For example: We speak of understanding a sentence in the sense in which it can be replaced by another which...in the sense in which it cannot be replaced by any othet. (Any more than one musical theme can be replaced by anothet.) (sec. 531) Then shall we say that... | |
 | J. M. Bernstein - Philosophy - 2001 - 482 pages
...what is it all about? I should not be able to say . . . 53 1 . We speak of understanding a sentence in the sense in which it can be replaced by another which...replaced by another.) In the one case the thought is the sentence says something common to different sentences; in the other, something that is expressed... | |
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We speak of understanding a sentence in the sense in which it can be replaced by another which says the same; but also in the sense in which it cannot be replaced by any other. (Any more than one musical theme can be replaced by another... 
