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You seem to deny the existence of something;

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on the other hand you say you don't deny

any
the

existence: why should it seem as if you did? You seem to say: ‘there is only …’ You deny⌊,⌋ ˇit seems⌊,⌋ the backgroun[g|d] of the expression of sensations. But I Doesn't the expression point to something beyond itself? – If we see the feeling as a background to the expression then we can always assume that we are wrong in thinking that this background doesn't change; we can

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assume that our memory at each instant cheats us & that we use the expression bona fide to express something different each time. So that one might say: it doesn't matter what is behind the expression so long as it is a bona fide expression of it.

(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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