Dear Pedro,

OK – I take your point.  But the sort of suggestion Wittgenstein seems to be
making in that LP quote, and later much expanded on, seems to have been one
just as clearly in the mind of the early Keynes himself, so to me, the
question reads rather like: ‘did the early Keynes influence the later
Keynes’ (answer: yes).  Skidelsky mentions a close intellectual relationship
between the two began on 30th October 1912.  Wittgenstein was then new to
philosophy, but Keynes had by then been working on exactly these matters for
6 years.

The Walley work certainly builds on a position taken in the later part of
the Keynes Treatise.  But it, (like Keynes himself) seems to contradict what
is very prominently stated in the first part of the Treatise.  If Keynes
meant ‘fuzzily numerical’ by ‘not numerical’, he surely owed it to his
reader to say that clearly from the onset?

Best Wishes

Rob Tye