Was he Trying to Whistle It?

I—A. W. Moore

“…Ramsey is alluding to TLP, 7. He is also, as Hacker points out in Hacker (2000), fn. 5, alluding to Wittgenstein's well-known expertise in whistling.…”

“…: Diamond (1991); Diamond (2000); Conant (1989); Conant (1991); Conant (2000); Witherspoon (2000); and Kremer (2001). For a powerful recoil in favour of the traditional reading see Hacker (2000). Poised somewhere in between are Reid (1998);McGinn (1999); Proops (2001); and Sullivan (2002).…”

Translation after Wittgenstein

“…So different are the approaches of the two works (Crary & Read, 2000) that it can easily seem that there are two philosophers of the same name. There is controversy about how far any continuity can be asserted between the early and the later work, with self-styled New Wittgensteinian philosophers such as Alice Crary and Read (2000) asserting that there is no break, in contrast to what Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian and Oskari Kuusela (2007:2) call the orthodox interpretation, as exemplified by Hacker (2004), which treats the later and the early work separately. I avoid this controversy by concentrating on the PI, with reference to other later writings, but my sympathy lies with the orthodox interpretation, based on the reference by Wittgenstein (PI p.4) to the 'grave mistakes' made in the TL-P.…”

Truth in the Tractatus

“…2 In making this assumption, I diverge from proponents of a 'New Wittgenstein' (Creary/Read 2000), who regard the Tractatus as an exclusively therapeutic exercise and deny that the book is committed to logico-metaphysical doctrines like the picture-theory. For criticism see Hacker (2000). The idea of an isomorphism does not, however, commit me to taking sides in a well-known exegetical conflict.…”