Ludwig himself was of a melancholy, tortured disposition and, at least as a young adult, often brooded about committing suicide. Bertrand Russell remarked that Wittgenstein was "perhaps the most ...
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Toronto-based Harvard philosophy graduate David Egan certainly jumped in the deep end when he decided on an incident involving philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Popper and Bertrand Russell as the ...