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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus gives a picture account of what makes a proposition meaningful. Compare its explanatory purpose with Wittgenstein’s later attention to language in use.
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Guided course · Module 11 · Lesson 63
Does language always work like a picture?
Wittgenstein’s early account treats a sentence as a picture of a situation; his later work looks at words in use, where requests, reports and corrections do different jobs. The lesson connects meaning with use without concluding that words can mean anything.