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In his Memoir, Norman Malcolm claims that Wittgenstein revered the writings of St. Augustine. He told me he decided to begin his Investigations with a quotation from the latter’s Confessions, not because he could not find the conception expressed in that quotation stated as well by other philosophers, but because the conception must be important if so great a mind held it.133
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© 1973 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Binkley, T. (1973). The African Doctor. In: Wittgenstein’s Language. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2450-1_12
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