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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
His discussion of aesthetics was mingled in a curious way with criticism of assumptions which he said were made by Frazer in The Golden Bough and also with criticisms of Freud (G. E. Moore, ‘Wittgenstein's Lectures, 1930–33)’.
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