Wittgenstein's Tractatus and the early circle
pp. 89-103
in: , Reminiscences of the Vienna circle and the mathematical colloquium, Berlin, Springer, 1994Abstract
Ludwig Wittgenstein had enough first-rate ideas to influence a variety of thinkers; he expressed some ideas vaguely enough to keep hosts of interpreters busy; he changed them often enough to provide work for some score of biographers and historians; and he shrouded them (and himself), in enough mystery to originate a cult.