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Thanks for the further suggestions. I was reading Ray Monk's biography of Wittgenstein the other day, and in it he writes that the Philosophical Investigations isn't quite like other texts, in that it isn't so much a case of Wittgenstein talking to the reader, but one of the reader being guided whil...

Thanks very much for those suggestions. I've borrowed both Language Truth and Logic and Critique of Pure Reason from a teacher, so I'll be reading those in the next few weeks (or at least, trying to read, in the case of the latter). I happen to have a copy of An Enquiry on Human Understanding on my ...

Hello, I was fortunate enough to win a prize at my school for achievement in the academic year that has just passed. The award is a book voucher for a book of our own choosing which is presented to students at the annual presentation evening. Last year I also won an award and I chose Bertrand Russel...