BRACERS Record Detail for 1545
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BR asserts that Wittgenstein was occupied with the idea of a logically perfect language at one time. On incurring the wrath of Wittgenstein "and consequently that of his disciples".
BR TO GORAN HERMEREN, 18 JUNE 1960
BRACERS 1545. TL(CAR). McMaster
from: The Earl Russell, O.M., F.R.S.,
Plas Penrhyn
18 June, 1960.
Dear Mr. Hermeren,
I am sorry your letter has remained so long unanswered. Wittgenstein objected to my saying that he was concerned with the idea of a logically perfect language. He was occupied with this idea at one time, but later discarded it, and I think forgot how much he had believed in it. What Miss Anscombe says is true of the later Wittgenstein, but not of the earlier one whom she did not know. One may lay it down generally that anybody who attributed any particular meaning to anything that Wittgenstein said incurred his wrath and consequently that of his disciples.
Yours sincerely,
(signed) Bertrand Russell
