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Elucidating the Tractatus - Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic and Language (Paperback)
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Elucidating the Tractatus - Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic and Language (Paperback)
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Discussion of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is currently dominated by
two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist
reading and the "resolute" reading of Diamond and Conant. Marie
McGinn's principal aim in this book is to develop an alternative
interpretative line, which rejects the idea; central to the
metaphysical reading, that Wittgenstein sets out to ground the
logic of our language in features of an independently constituted
reality, but which allows that he aims to provide positive
philosophical insights into how language functions.
McGinn takes as a guiding principle the idea that we should see
Wittgenstein's early work as an attempt to eschew philosophical
theory and to allow language itself to reveal how it functions. By
this account, the aim of the work is to elucidate what language
itself makes clear, namely, what is essential to its capacity to
express thoughts that are true or false. However, the early
Wittgenstein undertakes this descriptive project in the grip of a
set of preconceptions concerning the essence of language that
determine both how he conceives the problem and the approach he
takes to the task of clarification. Nevertheless, the Tractatus
contains philosophical insights, achieved despite his early
preconceptions, that form the foundation of his later philosophy.
The anti-metaphysical interpretation that is presented includes a
novel reading of the problematic opening sections of the Tractatus,
in which the apparently metaphysical status of Wittgenstein's
remarks is shown to be an illusion. The book includes a discussion
of the philosophical background to the Tractatus, a comprehensive
interpretation of Wittgenstein's early views of logic and language,
and an interpretation of the remarks on solipsism. The final
chapter is a discussion of the relation between the early and the
later philosophy that articulates the fundamental shift in
Wittgenstein's approach to the task of understanding how language
functions and reveal the still more fundamental continuity in his
conception of his philosophical task.
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