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The Oxford Murders
By Jorge Guerricaechevarria and Alex de la Iglesia - Film
Roles
- PROFESSOR SELDOM - Male
About this piece
Professor Seldom's opening speech on Wittgenstein
Summary
The opening sequence of the film is a scene from WWI. A group of soldies are running and shooting. In the chaos, a young man is scribbling in a note book.... This monologue explains the opening image. This is a speech by an Oxford professor on the Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein, who wrote the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus", an influential book about philosophy about the search for the truth. His conclusion: there is no truth outside of mathematics....
Use cases
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