Item 86 - Letter from Georg Henrik von Wright to Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Add. MS a/278/86

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Letter from Georg Henrik von Wright to Ludwig Wittgenstein

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  • 9 Dec. 1940 (Creation)

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4 ff.

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Helsinki. - Postal connections cut off since the German invasion of Denmark and Norway; life in Finland dominated by the menace from Russia; activities since the Finno-Russian War; stationed in the Carelian Woods and Marshes in September and October; regrets writing to Wittgenstein about his article in Mind; plans to write a paper on immediate knowledge; thinking hard about the logical nature of arithmetic; Beethoven's quartet in F major; reiterates his delight at having known Wittgenstein. Postscript on sending Wittgenstein's manuscript to Finland.

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