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I don't get it.


It didn't really happen so there's nothing to get. Those are seperate quotes taken from different lectures and strung together as though they are a dialogue with a sort of Zen character. See one of the sibling comments by dfaubulich for the actual origin of each of those lines.


Don't bother, it's just the usual nonsense by Wittgenstein, this time related to the rule following discussion. Wittgenstein has not published anything of substance and is the most persistently overrated philosopher of 20th Century. Thanks to his obscurity and an ability to invent interesting puzzles, which he scribbled on little notes, he has gathered a large number of fanatic followers. Ironically, if Wittgenstein was still alive, he'd make relentless fun of most of these followers.

He was good at pointing out problems. The rest of his work consisted of hand-waving.




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