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Add. MS a/747/56
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Letter from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Norman Malcolm
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- 19 Mar 1951 (Creation)
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2 sheets.
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(1911-1990)
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76 Storey's Way, Cambridge. - Improvement due to radiotherapy; very weak; biography of Rommel by Desmond Young; glad von Wright proposed Malcolm [for the Philosophy Chair at Cambridge]; has seen reviews of a book by Toulmin and one containing articles by Wisdom, Waismann, Ryle, and 'other charlatans', saw a remark of Waismann that came straight out of his own lectures.
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- Wright, Georg Henrik von (1916-2002), philosopher (Subject)
- Toulmin, Stephen Edelston (1922-2009), philosopher and historian of idea (Subject)
- Wisdom, Arthur John Terence Dibben (1904-1993), philosopher (Subject)
- Waismann, Friedrich (1896-1959), philosopher (Subject)
- Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976) philosopher (Subject)
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann (1889-1951), philosopher (Subject)