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When implicit meaning is not understood, as Wittgenstein surmised, paranoia is the result: ‘Mightn’t we imagine a man who, never having had any acquaintance with music, comes to us and hears someone playing a reflective piece of Chopin and is convinced that this is a language and people merely want to keep the meaning secret from him?’
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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