A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's always ajar, feeling that he might be able to get out, and all he has to do is step outside.
Philosophy of language
Philosophical Investigations, Part I, 309 (paraphrased from the fly-bottle analogy)
1953 (posthumous)
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