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March 21, 2011

Wittgenstein: "leave a dozen white sheets for the reader to swear into..."

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Wittgenstein in a letter to Ogden, the eventual publisher of the Tractatus, May 5, 1922:
"Rather than print the Erganzungen [supplements] to make the book fatter leave a dozen white sheets for the reader to swear into when he has purchased the book and can't understand it."
pg. 6  James Klagge's Wittgenstein in Exile  MIT Press 2011 
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