Re: RARA-AVIS: Hard-boiled Wit: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Norbert Davis

From: William Denton ( wtd@pobox.com)
Date: 04 Jun 2006


On 1 June 2006, Steve Lewis wrote:

> Reprinted from CADS #44, October 2003, and now online at
> www.mysteryfile.com is a long article by Josef Hoffmann about Ludwig
> Wittgenstein and Norbert Davis, two authors whom he suggests had a lot in
> common.

Fascinating stuff! Norbert Davis is briefly mentioned in WITTGENSTEIN'S POKER by David Edmonds (2001), which is worth a read if you dig the philosophy of science and mathematics. I typed in the extract:

    http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/archives/200207/0217.html

The direct URL to what Mr. Lewis mentioned is, for anyone who for some reason couldn't find it:

   http://www.mysteryfile.com/NDavis/Wit.html

Bill

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William Denton : Toronto, Canada : www.miskatonic.org : www.frbr.org


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