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- ↑ Schulte, Joachim, Wittgenstein: An Introduction (SUNY Press, 1992), p. 71.
- ↑ Lecture on Ethics (1997) Ludwig Wittgenstein - Printed in Darwall, Gibbard, and Railton, “Moral Discourse and Practice: Some Philosophical Approaches, New York: Oxford University Press, pg. 67
- ↑ Page 73 of 'Wittgenstein on Mind and Language' by David G Stern, published in 1995 by Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508000-9
- ↑ Stern, op. cit., p. 203.