On Pulling Up the Ladder

Idealistic Studies 15 (3):249-270 (1985)
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In the closing passages of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein makes two claims which, although they are consequences of both the semantic theory and the notion of philosophy which that book contains, seem in conflict. In the first remark, Wittgenstein writes

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10.5840/idstudies198515330

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