Logic Matters 2008-08-10
Wittgenstein's trousers
Jeanette Winterson in yesterday's Books supplement to The Times.I am not an absent-minded person, and certainly not like Wittgenstein who had to summon his friends to help him fasten his braces -- he couldn't match the loops to his trouser buttons, and if left to dress unaided, went forth into Cambridge in a tweedy mass of clown clothes.Complete bollocks of course about a notoriously fastidious and meticulous man. Which leaves me wondering first where on earth Winterson got that absurdity, and second why the supplement's editor couldn't be bothered to check.
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