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The Oxford philosopher, John Mabbott, recalls that when he arrived in Nottingham to attend the conference he met at the student hostel a youngish man with a rucksack, shorts and open-neck shirt. Never having seen Wittgenstein before, he assumed that this was a student on vacation who did not know his hostel had been given over to those attending the conference. ‘I’m afraid there is a gathering of philosophers going on in here’, he said kindly. Wittgenstein replied darkly: ‘I too.’...

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