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The Poker Moment In Cambridge
- Ludwig Wittgenstein picked up a fireside poker and waved it while arguing at the Moral Sciences Club meeting.
- Karl Popper replied, "One shouldn't threaten visiting lecturers with pokers," and Wittgenstein left in anger.
Memory Shapes Conflicting Accounts
- Eyewitness testimonies decades later diverge dramatically due to fragile memory and bias.
- David Edmonds highlights that nine witnesses remembered the same ten minutes in conflicting ways.
Viennese Roots, Stark Class Divide
- Wittgenstein and Popper shared Viennese roots but came from very different social classes.
- Edmonds suggests class differences — Wittgenstein's wealth versus Popper's reduced circumstances — fed personal antagonism.