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Introducing Wittgenstein

by John Heaton, Judy Groves, Richard Appignanesi · 1992

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Ludwig Wittgenstein has somehow captured the popular imagination as the modern Socrates, the fascinating and attractive master of enigmatic logic. But what did Wittgenstein really say?

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adult
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