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The famous concluding sentence of the Tractatus, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof must one be silent,” follows from this.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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The famous concluding sentence of the Tractatus, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof must one be silent,” follows from this.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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The famous concluding sentence of the Tractatus, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof must one be silent,” follows from this.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Ludwig Wittgenstein famously insisted at the end of his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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The famous concluding sentence of the Tractatus, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof must one be silent,” follows from this.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eightyfour, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and ninth.
The history of ice cream (July is National Ice Cream Month) 2010
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Whereof he offers proof to all men in that he raised him from the dead.
Resurrection Sermon 2010
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So to your sniffs of disapproval at the whole practice, with the implication that I hamstring my creative ambitions out of some sort of societal obligation, I would offer the wise counsel of Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent.”
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » A writer by any other name… 2010
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Jacques Derrida, 9/11, And The Democracy Which is Yet to Come 2010
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In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and tenth.
Esmeralda Williamson-Noble: Presidential Proclamations - June 1986 - Suicide Prevention Month 2010
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