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, and was seriously injured in a practice gas attack. After leaving the army he studied classics at

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, and was then for many years a Student (Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford.

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.'' Viking Press 1970. * '' Motivated Irrationality.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press 1984. * ''The False Prison: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy.'' 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1987/1988. * ''Hume's System: An Examination of the First Book of His Treatise.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press 1991. * ''Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006.

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