
The basic theme is that logical atomism, as inflicted by
Bertrand Russell on poor old Ludwig W., was the disease that
Ludwig spent the second half of his life trying to overcome.
Frank Ramsey, who had read Peirce, is the person that Ludwig
credited with the beginning of the cure that led him to see
the grave errors in his earlier philosophy.  An equally bad
case of influenza came from the logical positivism of the
Vienna Circle.  I consider those two sources the primary
causes of the downfall of logic in t