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13 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 04 August 2012 10:48AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 August 2012 07:23:10PM 0 points [-]

The last line is dismissing the third option but it's not clear what he thinks Wittgenstein's failure was (lack of recent popularity?).

Presumably, the failure of the Tractatus in the face of the color-correspondence problem.

Comment author: scientism 04 August 2012 07:27:50PM 2 points [-]

I took him to be speaking of late Wittgenstein.

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