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Letters
Letters
Wittgenstein Out-Played • Gender and Pragmatism • He’s Behind You • For Hume The Bell Tolls? • The Possibility of Progress • The Good & The Not • Matter versus Mind • Stranger Ideas • Meta Letters • To P or To Not P?
Wittgenstein Out-Played
Dear Editor: Wittgenstein’s fragment on his snooker match in Sheffield in 1948, as presented by Peter Mullen in Issue 150, was an enlightening insight into his later thought. However, the Crucible was only opened in 1971. What’s more, there is no Cable Street in the Attercliffe district of Sheffield. I suspect, therefore, that the document may be a fake.
Chris Bainbridge, Sheffield
Dear Editor: Analytical philosophers of the twentieth century concentrated not so much on the ideas in the mind but on the language in which the mind’s thinking is expressed.
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