" I know that a sick man is lying here? Nonsense! I am sitting at his bedside, I am looking attentively into his face.-So I don't know, then, that there is a sick man lying here? Neither the question nor the assertion makes sense. Any

The difference between the concept of "knowing" and the concept of "being certain" isn't of any great importance at all, except where "I know" is meant to mean: I can't be wrong. In a law-court, for example,

Thank you. It was not written by me. It was written by Wittgenstein, the philosopher.

7. In the practice of the use of language (2) one party calls out the words, the other acts on them. In instruction in the language the following process will occur: the learner names the objects; that is, he utters the word when the teacher

Heidegger -- Philosophical Investigations Now think of the following use of language: I send someone shopping. I give him a slip marked "five red apples". He takes the slip to the shopkeeper, who opens the drawer marked

Remember, it is easy to save the cost of tune-ups and maintenance through increased efficiency.

Ah! Ok. Wow, thank you. I didn't think you would figure out even without the context.

"There is nothing that intelligent humor cannot resolve in gales of laughter, not even the void... Laughter, as one of humanity's most sumptuous extravagances, even to the point of debauchery, stands at the lip of the void, offers us the

Oh, I made a mistake. I just wrote the text off my head without thinking enough. But I meant the government's public service! Thank you. Do you agree that "public services" is correct?

I think "accomodations" and "installations" are 100% correct. But I am not sure whether "services" is.