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- From: Robert.Vienneau@launchpad.unc.edu (Robert Vienneau)
- Subject: Re: Plato's Views on Women
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.172056.23081@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Keywords: politics, women, feminism
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- References: <BxIKsp.Gt3@unx.sas.com> <1992Nov11.010102.14565@cheshire.oxy.edu> <BxK1zu.93q@unx.sas.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:20:56 GMT
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- In article <BxK1zu.93q@unx.sas.com> sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Nov11.010102.14565@cheshire.oxy.edu>, rooney@cheshire.oxy.edu (Michael Sean Rooney) writes:
- >
- > [...]
- >
- >|> [1] Not to give Ludwig too much credit: these ideas are inherited
- >|> from his hidden inspiration, Schopenhauer.
- >
- >Oh goody! Footnotes in a usenet posting! Schopenhauers hidden
- >influence on Wittgenstein. Intriguing.
- >
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- I've never read Schopenhauer, but this claim about influence on
- Wittgenstein is not original. It's supposed to be especially evident in
- the Tractatus discussion on solipsism. See A. J. Ayer's book
- _Wittgenstein_ for a brief discussion of this influence.
-
- Robert Vienneau
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