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20. Action / A. Definition of Action / 3. Actions and Events

6658	What is left over if I subtract my arm going up from my raising my arm? [Wittgenstein]
	Full Idea: What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arm goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?
	From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations [1952], §621)
	A reaction: Wittgenstein's implication seems to be that nothing is left over, but I would have thought that the will was the thing left over when you decide to raise your arm, but then discover that you are paralysed.