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> I would love to see a reference to the claim that Wittgenstein regarded Tractatus as a joke.

Apparently I was wrong about that too. According to another comment in this thread [1], he disavowed the work later, but intended it to be serious when he wrote it.

It has always seemed like self-evident nonsense to me though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40089100




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