RP writes: "I forgot to add that one can only see the German text if one closes the book, shuts one's eyes, and wills that the neighbor next door will lower the volume on *Aida*." Finally, some philosophizing that I can relate to. To wit: all meaning is constructed. Ask not how I construe what RP says above to apply to my philosophy. My philosophy is large. Whitmanian large. It contains multitudes. We are each of us but adaptations to varying degrees of our birth and nurturing culture. We are each of us our mama and our daddy and our aunts and uncles and siblings and neighbors and priests and police and professors. We are they and the whole history and ethnicity that shaped them all rolled into one. We are social-made, not born. There's no such thing as the self-made self, we are creatures of imprint no less than ducks, though in more highly complex ways (I assume so anyway, never having been a duck). The crucial, defining attribute, as i see it, differentiating us-kind-of-creatures and all others is language. If roaches had language this might just as likely have been roach-written instead by a wild-ass liberal, agnostic, American, Southern, white, male Senior citizen, who carries within himself all those influences and who also happens to be language-fascinated -- that is: moi. "Me," of course, includes the 200,000 years of getting here. And now that I'm here, I can only wonder why. Only language can come up with an answer. On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Donal wrote > > > >An English translation of the Investigations (with the translated German > text on facing pages), > can be found at> > > There is no facing German text and the English text has defects, including > some that render the text almost unintelligible in parts, including some > quite crucial parts e.g. > > ———————————————————— > > I forgot to add that one can only see the German text if one closes the > book, shuts one's eyes, and wills that the neighbor > next door will lower the volume on *Aida*. (This is the approach Paul > Grice recommends.) > > Robert Paul > >