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There’s a story I love about Wittgenstein listening to Beethoven’s op. 131 string quartet in Cambridge. I think it’s about this moment from the last movement. (Shown orchestrated because I love Bernstein’s conducting here so much). The story goes: (1/n)
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(and here he seized a pencil and a piece of paper) ‘how you think you have understood the projection’ (and he drew two-thirds of a circle) ‘and then suddenly’ (and here he added a bulge) you realize that you haven’t understood anything at all’.” (3/n)
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beautiful story and visualisation. The "scribbling" reminded me of this disagreement of Russell and Wittgenstein in 1919
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