Wittgenstein: Meaning and Judgement

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I have to hand it to Luntley; this is well argued. The claim that Wittgenstein did not view the social nature of language as "constitutive" (his words) is highly implausible, but it is very instructive to see where Luntley went wrong in his interpretation. For one thing, the 'social aspect' of language is by no means simple, and the cavalier attitude of many imputing this to W. is implausible. So, while I don't think the thesis is correct, the text deserves a look, particularly for those who find it a matter of course that the social determines meaning in Wittgenstein's writing. Wittgenstein: Meaning and Judgement......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 Preface......Page 9 Abbreviations......Page 11 1.1 Introduction......Page 13 1.2 Animating Signs......Page 14 1.3 The Platonist Source of Grammar......Page 21 1.4 The Cartesian Source of Grammar......Page 23 1.5 The Community Source of Grammar......Page 27 1.6 The Negative and Positive Phases – First Statement......Page 28 2.1 Introduction......Page 33 2.2 Logic Takes Care of Itself......Page 34 2.3 The Need for Grammar......Page 39 2.4 The Metaphysical Options......Page 46 2.5 The Self......Page 54 3.1 Introduction......Page 60 3.2 Two Kinds of ‘Hidden’......Page 62 3.3 Meaning and Use......Page 70 3.4 Use and Self......Page 76 3.5 Use and Augustine’s Mistake......Page 79 3.6 Is ‘Slab!’ a Shortening of ‘Bring Me a Slab!’ or is the Latter a Lengthening of the Former?......Page 83 3.7 This and Similar Things are called ‘Games’......Page 89 3.8 Spontaneity in Particular Circumstances......Page 95 4.1 Introduction......Page 105 4.2 The Structure of an Argument......Page 106 4.3 The Bipartite Account of Meaning......Page 112 4.4 Practice......Page 117 4.5 What You See/Hear is not Normless......Page 127 4.6 Seeing the Similarity in Particular Cases......Page 131 5.2 The Standard Treatments......Page 136 5.3 What’s Special about Sensations?......Page 140 5.4 The Need for Calibration......Page 145 5.5 Calibration in Subjectivity......Page 149 5.6 Agreement in Forms of Life......Page 154 5.7 ‘Inner’ Life Out There......Page 158 5.8 Now I Understand......Page 160 6.1 Introduction......Page 164 6.2 Two Uses of the Word ‘See’......Page 167 6.3 See What I Mean......Page 177 6.4 Paying Attention......Page 180 6.5 The Place of Judgement......Page 182 6.6 What Comes Natural......Page 185 Bibliography......Page 189 Index......Page 194