The Later Wittgenstein the Search Paradox and Dualism

Back when I was an undergraduate, I ended up in an interdisciplinary self directed program of study, known as 'Jefferson House'.

My thesis advisors came from philosophy and literature fields.

I wrote a rather puerile paper on how the later Wittgenstein had 'solved' problems going back to the beginnings of philosophy, in Meno, dualism problems and such; it's a long story.

It incorporated some of the high points of the history of philosophy, metaphysics and especially 'epistemology'. I threw in some recent actual scientific perceptual systems research (peripheral vision, fighter pilots, etc.), done by James J Gibson, for good measure; and also some aesthetics insights on perception from Gombrich's, Art And Illusion. He had been at the Courtauld.

Funnily enough, the thesis advisors thought I had plagiarized this paper from somewhere, and they spent a week or so, I guess, back there in 1975, looking around for my sources........

It was rather comical really.