Oddly, both are described as "philosopher and linguist".
This from online review of a book that J owns:
"There may have even been a woman or two squashed into H3 that night too, like posh molls brought along for the spectacle."
"One of those women, Margaret Braithwaite, wife of King's fellow R. B. Braithwaite, was famous for supposedly not wearing knickers."
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(This may relate to Kramer's point about 'the well-known lesbian', and other phrases. How can one be famous for "SUPPOSEDLY not wearing...". I mean, I take the point but, strictly, she was famous for NOT wearing knickers, supposedly -- rather. Or something).
The review goes on:
"And that evening, as two of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century clashed, onlookers may have been distracted from the quarrel by Mrs Braithwaite crossing and uncrossing her legs."
Oddly, I have an essay by Masterman that I adore. It is in a collection of "British Philosophy in the Mid-Century", I think. And it is the most delightful if otiose analysis of "Three blind mice", the nursery rhyme. She proposes an ideographic lingo to represent the rhyme, but she fails.
She IS a genius!
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Yes, or close at least. Or as the authors of Witt.'s Poker put it--, "according to one perhaps overimaginative witness, [Mrs Braithwaite nee Masterson] was famed for not wearing knickers, and this witness (who ??) was distracted from the Poker incident by the crossing and uncrossing of her legs". Then, are knickers...undies?? I guess. One thinks of like bloomers, or something for British gals. Knickers can mean pants at times too.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly enough, she was one of St Ludwig's students and actually helped in the preparation of the Blue Book from notes taken from LW's lectures; later she did some work in computational linguistics.
Yes. She was a character! (I hate that expression, but hey).
ReplyDeleteWe should find more about her. I´ll do an "image finder" hit "Masterman knickers" and see what I retrieve.
Oddly, Braithwaite was the Chair of the symposium, as I recall (having read) for Grice and White, "The causal theory of perception", held in Cambridge, in 1961.