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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes: Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.
         

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.


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