
David Edmonds on Wittgenstein's Poker
Philosophy Bites
What Is Wrong With Witzenstein?
Wits ine begins to take over the meeting, as he always did. He starts demanding examples of philosophical problem s in logic. And at one stage he gets so agitated that he picks up a fireside poker. But pope says, one shouldn't threaten visiting lecturers with pokers. Whereupon wits ine throws down the poker, storms out of the room and popa is left on the field of battle victorious. That was popa's account. The book is about unwrapping and uncovering what actually happened in those ten minutes.
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