Who are other thinkers who have come to extremely tight and wide understanding of large fields? Like Vervaeke for history of the West, Joscha Bach for cognition, or Girard for Christianity?
Wittgenstein is thinking ALOT about words. He just wrote 3 pages on the word “this”
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I like W because as per the Monk biography he was just good at whatever he put his mind to. He was the OG domain-general rat. (Note that this is not being a polymath.)
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I especially empathized with him when he was musing "I have to do some Beethoven-grade achievement so that I can feel entitled to behave like Beethoven"
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