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Cover Image: Photograph of Survival Supplies for the Well-Stocked Fallout Shelter (c. 1961) from U. S. National Archive. ARC Identifier 542103 / Local Identifier 311-D-9(2). This image is in the public domain.
Cover Image: Photograph of Survival Supplies for the Well-Stocked Fallout Shelter (c. 1961) from U. S. National Archive. ARC Identifier 542103 / Local Identifier 311-D-9(2). This image is in the public domain.
Various claims have been made about the influence of Heinrich Hertz's on Wittgenstein's work. I consider some such recent claims, made by Allan Janik, to the effect that Hertz exercised a very strong influence on Wittgenstein, early and late. I suggest they are ill-founded, in virtue of misinterpretations either of Hertz, or of Wittgenstein, or of both. I try to set the record straight on issues such as the three criteria Hertz suggests for evaluating scientific 'representations' [] or 'images' [], his conception of philosophy, the nature of Hertz's project and its relation to philosophy, the extent to which he agrees and disagrees with Ernst Mach, and his influence on the .