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...Jacques Derrida had been born a Kennedy, he might have come close to matching Ludwig Wittgenstein's curious combination of affluence and intellect. Wittgenstein was both a philosopher of towering importance and the scion of one of the wealthiest and most influential families in Europe. He was also a scarily intense guy. On Oct. 25, 1946, he attended a Cambridge University discussion group at which Karl Popper, another major thinker, was the guest speaker. The evening ended in bedlam when Wittgenstein threatened Popper with a poker...
...help predict our perceptions but cannot be known as objectively true; in Boston. His seminal 1951 essay "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" and 1960 book Word and Object built upon the works of such logical positivists as Rudolf Carnap and A.J. Ayer to place him just a notch below Wittgenstein in the pantheon of great 20th century analytic philosophers...
...this category is the secret upstairs room of the Lowell House library, accessible through a very steep metal stair at the back of the copy room (light switch at the top). The room contains a wonderfully arranged collection of everything from Wittgenstein and the Gitas to early American treatises on expansion, character...
...fact, there are moments (as when Gore speaks... slowly... and... heavily.... to... grown... men... and... women... so... that... you'd... swear... he... was... trying... to... explain... Wittgenstein... to... three... year... olds) when you have the disconcerting thought that the vice president may come from Mars. With Sheppard's insight, we may imagine simply that Gore comes from Ottawa. It is a less dislocating thought. The Coneheads sought to offer the same reassurance when they explained that they came "from France...
Waiting for a friend during shopping period I overheard two strangers having a conversation about Wittgenstein, culture and the color green and introduced myself. They were not my year and did not live in my House, work on my organizations or know my blockmates. And yet it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship...