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Answer by Mary for What did Wittgenstein mean by "Light dawns gradually over...
This metaphor is best understood by reflecting an actual dawn. It's not like the sunlight illuminates first this tree, then that hill, after that this store here. The light gradually increases, and the...
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I can offer an interpretation, on top of my head:Although the meaning of the sentence "Light dawns gradually over the whole" is that something ("light" in this case as a metaphor for understanding)...
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I agree with Wittgenstein that "we seldom learn new propositions piecemeal; rather we acquire propositional knowledge in holistic clusters". When I study math from a textbook, I definitely learn page...
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