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A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Attribution: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), British (Austrian born) philosopher. Philosophical Investigations, part I, 271 (1953). Any inner experiences that fail to correspond to public behavior in some orderly way are irrelevant to meaning.

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