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This succinct and readable overview of the two divisions within Wittgenstein's work was more than a refresher -- it gave me new insights into the reasoning he must have used to arrive at his famously undecorated assertions.

Many of these are, of course, classic stories. A few I'd not read before. The settings and the motivations of some of the characters probably won't be familiar to younger readers today, though a bit of elderly wisdom might clarify. O'Connor's writing style is engaging and seemingly effortless, though she worked hard to achieve that flow.

Since I've got some 10 other books also in media res, and many articles in preparing materials for seminar, I'm making slow progress on Hutchinson's book. But so far it's extremely well-thought out, reasonable, and not polemic. He makes excellent, seemingly irrefutable points about the logical flaws in the reasoning of those scientists who claim to finally know how reality works.