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UNDERSTANDING WITTGENSTEIN'S MEANING

UNDERSTANDING WITTGENSTEIN'S MEANING This is the first of two projected volumes on the Philosophical Investigations (PI), which, in the authors' words, are to be 'analytical philosophical commenta­ ries', rather than handbooks or companions, the writing being divided between essays and exegesis of the text in roughly equal proportion. I shall begin by characterising and criticising the book in a very general way, leaving detailed dis­ cussion untillater. The first volume covers the first 184 sections, which correspond roughly to the 1937 version of the Investigations, which was the result of two relatively short periods of concentrated writing. This gives some reason for stopping the first volume at § 184, although philosophically speaking, the decision is some­ what arbitrary; but since the book is already extremely large, no other justifi­ cation is in fact necessary. As Baker and Hacker note, there has been enormous disagreement about the nature of the Investigations, both at the strategic and tacticallevel. There is little or no general agreement concerning the point of the book, nor of many passages within it. Since, clearly, these questions interlock, an examination of the Investi­ gations 'in the large and in the small' (cf. PI § 66) is called for; thus the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Grazer Philosophische Studien Brill

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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This is the first of two projected volumes on the Philosophical Investigations (PI), which, in the authors' words, are to be 'analytical philosophical commenta­ ries', rather than handbooks or companions, the writing being divided between essays and exegesis of the text in roughly equal proportion. I shall begin by characterising and criticising the book in a very general way, leaving detailed dis­ cussion untillater. The first volume covers the first 184 sections, which correspond roughly to the 1937 version of the Investigations, which was the result of two relatively short periods of concentrated writing. This gives some reason for stopping the first volume at § 184, although philosophically speaking, the decision is some­ what arbitrary; but since the book is already extremely large, no other justifi­ cation is in fact necessary. As Baker and Hacker note, there has been enormous disagreement about the nature of the Investigations, both at the strategic and tacticallevel. There is little or no general agreement concerning the point of the book, nor of many passages within it. Since, clearly, these questions interlock, an examination of the Investi­ gations 'in the large and in the small' (cf. PI § 66) is called for; thus the

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Grazer Philosophische Studien – Brill

Published: Aug 13, 1981

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