"Wittgenstein expressed more than once the fear that his writings would be destroyed by fire. He related with horror how the great historian, Mommsen, had lost a manuscript volume of his History of Rome in that way."
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Norman Malcolm
Norman Malcolm (11 June 1911 – 4 August 1990) was an American philosopher, known for his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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