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Add. MS a/427/128
Title
Letter from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Piero Sraffa
Date(s)
- 29 Feb. 1940 (Creation)
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2 docs.
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(1898-1983)
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Scope and content
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!'.