Reminiscences of Wittgenstein

Abstract The document Anscombe headed ‘Anecdotes about Wittgenstein’ appears here under the title ‘Reminiscences’. There are explanatory footnotes and a handful of editorial insertions in the text. The paragraphs have been re-ordered thematically into six sections: Family and the Family Circle, Culture and Sensibility, Religion, Thought and Work, Friends and Colleagues, and Wittgenstein and Anscombe, this last being the most substantial. Anscombe’s reminiscences are almost entirely of conversations between her and Wittgenstein, which were very wide-ranging, but there are also some third-hand reports and opinions about the philosopher. What emerges is not only a picture of Wittgenstein the man and philosopher but also a memoir of a close friendship.