The Big Typescript

Long awaited by the scholarly community, Wittgenstein's so-called Big Typescript (von Wright Catalog # TS 213) is presented here in an en face English–German scholar’s edition.

• Presents scholar’s edition of important material from 1933, Wittgenstein’s first efforts to set out his new thoughts after the publication of the Tractatus Logico Philosophicus.

• Includes indications to help the reader identify Wittgenstein’s numerous corrections, additions, deletions, alternative words and phrasings, suggestions for moves within the text, and marginal comments.

Part I: Understanding.

Part II: Meaning.

Part III: Proposition. Sense of a proposition.

Part IV: Immediate understanding and the application of a word in time.

Part V: The nature of language.

Part VI: Thought. Thinking.

Part VII: Grammar.

Part VIII: Intention and depiction.

Part IX: Logical inference.

Part X: Generality.

Part XI: Expectation. Wish. Etc.

Part XII: Philosophy.

Part XIII: Phenomenology.

Part XIV: Idealism, etc.

Part XV: Foundations of mathematics.

Part XVI: On cardinal numbers.

Part XVII: Mathematical proof.

Part XVIII: Inductive proofs. Periodicity.

Part XIX: The infinite in mathematics. The extensional viewpoint