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In a Notebook entry in November 1914 Wittgenstein wrote:

How can I be told how the proposition represents? Or can this not be said to me at all? And if that is so can I ‘know’ it? If it was supposed to be said to me, then this would have to be done by means of a proposition: but the proposition could only show it.

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Heaton, J.M. (2014). Initiate Learning. In: Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137367693_5

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