Elucidating the Tractatus

Discussion of Wittgenstein''s Tractatus is currently dominated by two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist reading and the ''resolute'' reading of Diamond and Conant. Marie McGinn''s principal aim in this book is to develop an alternative interpretative line, which rejects the idea, central to the metaphysical reading, that Wittgenstein sets out to ground the logic of ou...