In 1946, a philosophical confrontation took place in Cambridge between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper. The incident was later immortalised in the book Wittgenstein’s Poker by David Edmonds and John Eidinow (Ecco, 2001). Karl Popper died in 1994 and was laid to rest in an honorary grave at the Lainz Cemetery in Vienna.

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The Gibbs Building was the site of a philosophical confrontation between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper in 1946 – famously known in literature as "Wittgenstein’s Poker" by David Edmonds and John Eidinow (Ecco Press, 2001).

On the left the King's College Chapel.

External link: King’s College / Gibbs Building

Sources:

• Edmonds, D., & Eidinow, J. (2001). Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers. Ecco.
• Monk, R. (1991). Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius. Vintage.

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