The Importance of Fragmentation in Philosophy

Professor Cave told the anecdote of his horror at discovering that two scholars were Wittgenstein in his college indeed, who's remained unnamed. He said their idea of creating and interpreting Wittgenstein was to cut up the fragments and rearrange them  to see if they could put them in a better order. This just always stayed with me as a wonderful kind of cartoon of what analytical philosophers think they're doing on the one hand, the violence to a text. And so I think that's a great idea for it in perfection.