Language and world in Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations
The author describes the replacement of the <i>a priori</i> conditions of representational activity in the <i>Tractatus</i> by a set of everyday conditions that underlie the application of terms such as âlanguageâ and âworldâ. He assesses both the later Wittgensteinâs challenge to clear distinctions between language and non-language, as well as his replacement of philosophical analysis with the new technique of philosophical grammar. While analysis depends, in the <i>Tractatus</i>, on clearly demarcated categories of language and world, grammar aims to describe the complex network of social, political, historical, technological, interpersonal, and material factors that constitute our particular modes of bringing order to experience. The author presents Wittgensteinâs later writing as a therapeutic response to the philosophical subliming of the language/world distinction in the <i>Tractatus</i>. He considers the multiple forms of therapy that <i>Philosophical Investigations</i> performs, involving both the substantive discussion of themes in the philosophy of language, as well as the distinctive form of philosophical writing that Wittgenstein develops. He argues that the later Wittgensteinâs awareness
Grundy, W. P.
Language and world in Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations. The author describes the replacement of the <i>a priori</i> conditions of representational activity in the <i>Tractatus</i> by a set of everyday conditions that underlie the application of terms such as âlanguageâ and âworldâ. He assesses both the later Wittgensteinâs challenge to clear distinctions between language and non-language, as well as his replacement of philosophical analysis with the new technique of philosophical grammar. While analysis depends, in the <i>Tractatus</i>, on clearly demarcated categories of language and world, grammar aims to describe the complex network of social, political, historical, technological, interpersonal, and material factors that constitute our particular modes of bringing order to experience. The author presents Wittgensteinâs later writing as a therapeutic response to the philosophical subliming of the language/world distinction in the <i>Tractatus</i>. He considers the multiple forms of therapy that <i>Philosophical Investigations</i> performs, involving both the substantive discussion of themes in the philosophy of language, as well as the distinctive form of philosophical writing that Wittgenstein develops. He argues that the later Wittgensteinâs awareness
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