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Waismann’s writings can be divided into three periods. The fi rst corresponds to his early work in Vienna under the aegis of Schlick, thus mainly to his collaboration with Wittgenstein on the fi rst drafts of Logik, Sprache, Philosophie, out of which came not only the book itself many years later but also transcriptions of conversations with Schlick and Wittgenstein and numerous dictations reworked by Waismann, now published under the title The Voice of Wittgenstein. The Vienna Circle. Waismann also did at that stage independent work, albeit largely infl uenced by Wittgenstein, on probability and identity. The second period runs roughly from the moment relations with Wittgenstein were severed – towards the end of 1934 – to his arrival in Oxford, where he started lecturing in Michaelmas Term 1939.
1References are to the page numbers of this edition of the typescript ‘Causality’. This is M 13 in Schulte’s Catalogue (Schulte 1979).
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Marion, M. (2011). Waismann’s Lectures on Causality: An Introduction1 . In: McGuinness, B. (eds) Friedrich Waismann - Causality and Logical Positivism. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1751-0_3
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