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Add. MS a/427/130
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Letter from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Piero Sraffa
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- 8 Jan. 1941 (Creation)
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1 doc.
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(1898-1983)
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Said last night that his own 'brain had deteriorated' and added that Sraffa 'too, didn't think properly - as though I thought these two things were on the same level'; did not mean that. Thinks his own decline 'permanent', while Sraffa's might be remedied. Sraffa is unable to stand strong contradiction; now when Sraffa is contradicted he talks extremely offensively. Wittgenstein thinks Sraffa has gone soft; this might be because more people admire him than used to; bad effects of admiration on G. H. Hardy.