Table of Contents

Introduction; Wittgenstein’s Preface; Sections1 and 2: The shopkeeper and the builders; Interlude (1): ‘No such thing was in question here’; Sections 3 to 7: Teaching by training; Interlude (2): Dispersing the fog; Sections 8 to 17: Primitive applications; Interlude (3): ‘Every word in language signifies something’; Sections 18 to 20: ‘Bring me a slab’; Interlude (4): Real meanings; Sections 21 to 25: Reporting, asking and commanding; Interlude (5): ‘The multiplicity of language-games’; Sections 26 to 32: Defining by pointing; Interlude (6): The demand for perfect exactness; Sections 33 to 38: Characteristic experiences and genuine names; Interlude (7): Naming as an occult process; Sections 39 to 47: Names and their bearers; Interlude (8): Rejecting the question; Sections 48 to 54: ‘But are these simple?’; Interlude (9): ‘We must focus on the details’; Sections 55 to 64: Indestructible elements and analysed forms; Interlude (10): ‘It is just another language-game’; Sections 65 to 70: Family resemblances; Interlude (11): ‘You take the easy way out!’; Sections 71 to 77: Seeing and understanding; Interlude (12): The requirement of determinate meanings; Sections 78 to 85: Definitions and rules; Interlude (13): ‘A rule stands there like a sign-post’; Sections 86 to 92: ‘The essence of everything empirical’; Interlude (14): ‘We feel as if we had to penetrate phenomena’; Sections 93 to 103: ‘We are not striving after an ideal’; Interlude (15): Subliming the logic of language; Sections 104 to 114: ‘Back to the rough ground!’; Interlude (16): The illusion of philosophical depth ;Sections 115 to 123: ‘Your scruples are misunderstandings’ ; Interlude (17): Pictures and representations; Sections 124 to 133: ‘There is nothing to explain’; Interlude (18): The proper aim of philosophy, Conclusion

About the Author

Andrew Lugg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa

Reviews

'... A valuable book. The clear, low-key prose, uncluttered by technical jargon, will make this a good introduction for students.' - Katherine Morris, Philosophical Books