Our Unsurveyable Grammar

In Dayton Z. Phillips & Peter G. Winch (eds.), Wittgenstein. Blackwell. pp. 95–111 (1989)
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This chapter contains sections titled: From the Synoptic View to the Album “I don't know my way about” The Problem of Grammar Essential Complexity The Practice of Language Hyper ‐ complexity.

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our unsurveyable grammar, the Tractatus ‐ decisive first sentence, and an equally decisive last one   search for a synoptic view, occupying Wittgenstein ‐ first notes for the Tractatus   “ I don't know my way about ” – Wittgenstein's method of examining, as “phenomenology”   Wittgenstein, that many things, being present ‐ standing in the way of looking at philosophical problems   problem of grammar, crucial philosophical difficulty ‐ that “our grammar lacks surveyability”   Wittgenstein, and understanding peculiar situations ‐ as being entangled, in one's own rules   primitive applications of language, in language games ‐ Wittgenstein's constructs in Investigations   essential complexity, and Wittgenstein speaking ‐ unsurveyability of our grammar, three characteristics   practice of language, coping with grammar of our language – lacking surveyability   grasp of grammar, practical capacity ‐ complex and unsurveyable

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