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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein ISBN 1136745742
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This book by Ludwig Wittgenstein has come up 2 times on Lex Fridman. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-06-13 and the most recent from 2020-09-05. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Wittgenstein's book about the problems of language and his attempt of describing the world and an philosophical accurate and most of all logical language.
“i would recommend that too even although he himself didn't believe in that by the end of his lifetime and he debunked his ideas”— guest
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“if you read the attract address it's a very beautiful book but capacity one salt on 75 pages it's very non typical for philosophy”— guest
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