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08:35 | 28-03-2013 | History, Philosophy | No Comments

Бертран Рассел вспоминает Людвига Виттгенштейна:

He was queer, and his notions seemed to me odd. So that for a whole term, I could not make up my mind whether he was a man of genius or merely an eccentric. At the end of his first term at Cambridge he came to me and said: “Will you please tell me whether I am a complete idiot or not? If I am a complete idiot, I shall become an aeronaut; but, if not, I shall become a philosopher.” I told him to write me something during the vacation on some philosophical subject, I would then tell him whether he was a complete idiot or not. At the beginning of the following term he brought me the fulfilment of this suggestion. After reading only one sentence I said to him, “No, you must not become an aeronaut.” And he didn’t.

  

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