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| | lw21-30 Wittgenstein's aphorism 21-30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | It is only a mistake if one thinks that the assertion consists of two actions, entertaining and asserting (assigning the truth-value, or something of the kind), and that in performing these actions we follow the prepositional sign roughly as we sing from the musical score. |
 | | This means, when we determine that a statement is an assertion or a question, it is not enough to look to see what the notation (or punctuation) tells us. |
 | | Say assertion, question, and command?--- There are countless kinds: countless different kinds of use of what we call "symbols", "words", "sentences". |
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