Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning: Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part I: Essays, 2nd Edition

Introduction to Part I: Essays.

Note to the paperback edition 2009.

Abbreviations.

I The Augustinian conception of language (§1).

II Explanation (§6).

III The language-game method (§7).

IV Descriptions and the uses of sentences (§18).

V Ostensive definition and its ramifications (§28).

VI Indexicals (§39).

VII Logically proper names (§39).

VIII Meaning and use (§43).

IX Contextual dicta and contextual principles (§50).

X The standard metre (§50).

XI Family resemblance (§65).

XII Proper names (§79).

XIII Turning the inquiry round: the recantation of a metaphysician (§89).

XIV Philosophy (§109).

XV Surveyability and surveyable representations (§122).

XVI Truth and the general propositional form (§134).

XVII Understanding and ability (§143).

1. The place of the elucidation of understanding in the Investigations.

2. Meaning and understanding as the soul of signs.

3. Categorial misconceptions of understanding.

4. Categorial clarification.

(a) Understanding is not an experience.

(b) Understanding is not a process.

(c) Understanding is not a mental state.

(d) Understanding is neither a dispositional state of the brain nor a disposition.

5. Powers and abilities.

6. Understanding and ability.

Index.