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About the book >.>.> Except for the two closing chapters this book is a careful examination of Wittgenstein’s chief works: Part One considers the Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus; Part Two considers the Philosophical Investigations. For the most part I have referred to other materials only when it helps to illuminate these texts. The exceptions to this are Chapters XIV and XV of Part Two. Chapter XIV which considers topics in philosophical psychology draws heavily on Zettel. Chapter XV which considers topics in the philosophy of mathematics is largely concerned with the Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. Following the charge of the editor of this series I have tried to offer a critical evaluation of the arguments presented in these works but I confess that there may be too much exegesis and not enough critical evaluation of arguments in this book. I beg as a partial excuse for this that Wittgenstein’s writing is often obscure and the text is surprisingly lacking in explicit arguments for one to evaluate. In general I have resisted the temptation of reconstructing the text into an argument-especially when this is done as a prelude to showing that the argument is no good. Concerning the Tractatus I am chiefly indebted to F. P. Ramsey and Bertrand Russell for the general form of my approach. Although Russell’s introduction to the Tractatus contains some mistakes I do not hold it in the low regard that others seem to. Discussions of the Philo- sophical Investigations have been so much a part of the philosophical climate for the last twenty years that it is impossible for me to decide which writers have influenced me most. This general acknowledgment implies no general responsibility. Throughout this book I have avoided again for the most part criticisms of competing interpretations of the text. An infinite regress is best stopped at the start. (LL)