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CONTENTSI xi PREFACE xv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii A NOTE ON READING WITTGENSTEIN 1 INTRODUCTION: Wittgenstein's Life and Times 15 PART ONE: The Early Philosophy 17 CHAPTER ONE Logical Atomism 35 CHAPTER TWO The Picture Theory of Meaning 61 CHAPTER THREE The General Form of Proposition 92 CHAPTER FOUR Transcendence of the Metaphysical Subject 110 CHAPTER FIVE' Ethics and Aesthetics as Important Nonsense 134 CHAPTER SIX Philosophical Pseudoproblems 151 PART TWO: Signs and Sources of Transition 153 TEXT Some Remarks on Logical Form 160 COMMENTARY Critical Interpretation of Wittgenstein's 1929 Essay 160 Historical Context 164 Two Methods of Projecting Meaning 168 Logical Analysis of Phenomena 172 The Color Incompatibility Problem 182 Contradiction and Quality Exclusion 186 Wittgenstein's Philosophy at the Turning Point 193 PART THREE: Philosophical Grammar in the Later Philosophy 195 CHAPTER SEVEN Naming 205 CHAPTER EIGHT Language Games 224 CHAPTER NINE Critique of Logical Atomism 236 CHAPTER TEN Forms of Life and Family Resemblance 254 CHAPTER ELEVEN Rule-Following 274 CHAPTER TWELVE The Private Language Argument 301 CHAPTER THIRTEEN An Ancient City of Languages 321 CONCLUSION: Wittgenstein's Philosophical Legacy 327 WORKS CITED 339 INDEX ...

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