Big Typescript TS 213 [Hardcover]

Long awaited by the scholarly community, Wittgenstein's so-called Big Typescript (von Wright Catalog # TS 213) is presented here in an en face English–German scholar’s edition.

• Presents scholar’s edition of important material from 1933, Wittgenstein’s first efforts to set out his new thoughts after the publication of the Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
• Includes indications to help the reader identify Wittgenstein’s numerous corrections, additions, deletions, alternative words and phrasings, suggestions for moves within the text, and marginal comments

Translator's Note.

Part I: Understanding.

1. Understanding, meaning, drop out of our considerations.

2. Meaning used amorphously. Meaning used equivocally.

3. Understanding as a correlate of an explanation.

4. Understanding a command the condition for our being able to obey it.

Understanding a proposition the condition for our acting in accordance.

with it.

5. Interpreting. Do we interpret every sign?.

6. One says: understanding a word means knowing how it is used. What does it mean to know that? We have this knowledge in reserve, as it were.

6a. Meaning a proposition seriously or in jest, etc.

Part II: Meaning.

7. The concept of meaning originates in a primitive philosophical conception of language.

8. Meaning, the position of the word in grammatical space.

9. The meaning of a word is what the explanation of its meaning explains.

10. The meaning of a sign is given by itl31