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Ludwig Wittgenstein A Memoir by Norman Malcom
I found this book for GBP 3.00 in a small second hand bookshop in Hampstead, London and I simply had to have it. It is a funny thing but I first realised that I had fallen in love with philosophy reading a book about Wittgenstein. It was a surreal moment, it is as if the book read back to me, the contents of my own mind. I was shocked;
Who was this man, who had mirrored my own thoughts?
Was I a genius to think the same things?
Was it coincidence?
I had to learn more and I will have a lot more to say on coincidences in the future. I believe this book is out of print and I have no idea how many copies are out there in the wild, gathering dust on bookshelves.
What I do know is that I am a happy owner of one of them.
Wittgensteins's Tractus may be called a synthesis of the theory
of truth-functions and the idea that language is a picture of
reality.
Out of this synthesis arises a third main ingredient of the book,
its doctrine of that which cannot be said, only shown.