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Smythies, Yorick (1917-1980), pupil of Wittgenstein
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Letter from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Piero Sraffa
Add. MS a/427/128 · Item · 29 Feb. 1940
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Encloses letter from J. H. Clapham to Wittgenstein, 28 Feb. 1940, discussing Yorick Smythies' appearance before the Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal. Clapham writes of Smythies: 'He seemed to us singularly remote from the external world - the conventional philosopher', to which Wittgenstein has added the comment 'I say!'.