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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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How Did He End Up in England?

Vedgenstein went to cambridge in 19 11 and introduced himself to bertrand russell. For a whole term, i could not make up my mind whether he was a man of genius or merely an eccentric. He his first porticor was manchester, where he studied aeronautical engineering. And then he got interested in the logical basis of mathematics. His family were brought up in complete isolation from the jewish community in vienna,. which had a very strong and influential jewish community. They never went to synagogue, but he counted as jewish under the nuremberg laws because his grandparents were jewish. So under the n Auremberg laws it wasn't

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