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> He had a profound influence on Ludwig Wittgenstein, persuading him to drop the quest for certainty, purity, and sparse metaphysical landscapes in the Tractatu
by chalst 7y ago
> He had a profound influence on Ludwig Wittgenstein, persuading him to drop the quest for certainty, purity, and sparse metaphysical landscapes in the Tractatus and turn to ordinary language and human practices.
Interesting. In the preface to the Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein credits the Neo-Ricardian economist Pierro Sraffa with something like the same influence. I'd be curious to know what led Misak to this conclusion.
- Advokatus 7y agoRamsey was the one who dug Wittgenstein up out of his self-imposed village solitude and convinced him that the Tractatus was fatally flawed (he attacked W’s treatment of the color exclusion problem), and remained a significant influence on W. More so the Sraffa in real terms.
- cafard 7y agoIn the preface to Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein mentions Ramsey in the sentence immediately before the one in which he mentions Sraffa.