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.)
In the one case the thought in the sentence is something common to different
sentences; in the other, something that is only expressed by these words in
these positions. (Understanding a poem.)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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