Wittgenstein Meaning and Judgement [Paperback]

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• A compelling reading of Wittgenstein’s account of meaning and intentionality.
  
• Offers an important and original reading of Wittgenstein’s key texts.
  
• Based upon a unifying theme in Wittgenstein’s early and later philosophies.

Preface vii

Abbreviations ix

1 Wittgenstein’s Master Argument 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Animating Signs 2

1.3 The Platonist Source of Grammar 9

1.4 The Cartesian Source of Grammar 11

1.5 The Community Source of Grammar 15

1.6 The Negative and Positive Phases – First Statement 16

2 Realism, Language and Self 21

2.1 Introduction 21

2.2 Logic Takes Care of Itself 22

2.3 The Need for Grammar 27

2.4 The Metaphysical Options 34

2.5 The Self 42

3 This is How We Play the Game 48

3.1 Introduction 48

3.2 Two Kinds of ‘Hidden’ 50

3.3 Meaning and Use 58

3.4 Use and Self 64

3.5 Use and Augustine’s Mistake 67

3.6 Is ‘Slab!’ a Shortening of ‘Bring Me a Slab!’or is the Latter a Lengthening of the Former? 71

3.7 This and Similar Things are called ‘Games’ 77