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Wittgenstein's Collection of Nonsense

Philosophy, language and expressing the impossible

Jonathan Ree.

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Inspired by Wittengstein's insights on the philosophy of language, Jonathan Rée asks whether any nonsense really is just nonsense, or an attempt to say something that might be impossible.

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Was this lecture given inside of a yurt?

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