The anecdote of Wittgenstein brandishing a fireplace poker at Karl Popper at a meeting of the Cambridge Moral Sciences Club is quite well known—but that inciden

The anecdote of Wittgenstein brandishing a fireplace poker at Karl Popper at a meeting of the Cambridge Moral Sciences Club is quite well known—but that incident happened after World War II was over. So if Hayek’s recollection here is accurate, he apparently made something of a habit of it.