While pacing the floor, this philosopher was asked whether he was “thinking about logic or [his] sins,” to which he replied “both.” During a period in which this thinker became known as “the man with the gospels” for his constant espousal of Tolstoy, he was informed of the death of David Hume Pinsent. The first book by this philosopher ends by drawing an analogy between it and a ladder that, once climbed, must be discarded. This philosopher’s “late” period is often seen as having precipitated his break with Bertrand Russell. A book by this thinker is structured around seven main propositions, the first of which is “the world is everything that is the case.” For 10 points, name this Austrian philosopher of language who wrote the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. ■END■
ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein [or Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein] (The question in the first sentence was posed by Russell.)
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