Abstract

The aim of this work is to preserve the  saying  /  showing  tractarian distinction from the  New Wittgenstein  reading, which defends, among other things, that the  Tractatus  contains only strings of plain nonsense. The author presents a brief exposition of the language system of the  Tractatus . Than he tries to interrelate three core theses, the analyticity theses, the contingency theses and the independency theses as unified by the picture theory. The latter provides the account of an elementary proposition, subject to the constraint that a proposition must show its sense. This work recognizes (without evaluating) the late Wittgenstein's objections, but also recognizes that those objections relate to important philosophical theses, not to pure nonsense