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Wittgenstein's poker the story of a ten-minute argument between two great philosophers

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Faber and Faber 2001Description: x, 340 p. : ill. ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 9780571227358
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 192EDM
Summary: On October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, the great twentieth-century philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting -- which lasted ten minutes -- did not go well. Their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of instant legend, but precisely what happened during that brief confrontation remained for decades the subject of intense disagreement.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-327) and index.

On October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, the great twentieth-century philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting -- which lasted ten minutes -- did not go well. Their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of instant legend, but precisely what happened during that brief confrontation remained for decades the subject of intense disagreement.

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