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Wittgenstein’s published output was tiny. In his lifetime, he published just one book, one article and one book review.
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I believe a certain sort of mathematicians have far more philosophical capacity than most people who take up philosophy. Hitherto the people attracted to philosophy have been mostly those who loved the big generalizations, which were all wrong, so that few people with exact minds have taken up the subject. It has long been one of my dreams to found a great school of mathematically minded philosophers, but I don’t know whether I shall ever get it accomplished. I had hopes of Norton, but he has not the physique, Broad is all right, but has no fundamental originality. Wittgenstein of course is
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Russell on mathematicians in philosophy
He did not think of philosophy primarily as an academic subject, still less as a profession. For him, philosophy was the activity of solving philosophical problems. He used to say that, just as his father had been a businessman, so he took a businesslike attitude to philosophy. He wanted to clear up philosophical problems, like a businessman clears his desk.
The book deals with the problems of philosophy and shows, I believe, that the method of formulating these problems rests on the misunderstanding of the logic of our language. Its whole meaning could be summed up somewhat as follows: What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.
Preface to TLP
