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>I'm think that's just because he doesn't know English

That seems to be the case. It's not really comparable with Wittgenstein's dicta, though, which was a stylistic choice; rather, it just might be that when one does not have a good enough grasp of another language's grammar and rhetoric, the easiest way to convey a complex message is through aphorisms.

However, I think what he means is very related to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion

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