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Published just over a century ago, Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length work to have been published during his lifetime and it continues to generate interest and scholarly debate. It is structured as a series of propositions on metaphysics, language, the nature of philosophy, and the distinction between what can be said and what can be shown. This volume brings together eleven new essays on the Tractatus coveri...

José L. Zalabardo defends a pragmatist account of the meaning of central semantic discourses-ascriptions of truth, of propositional attitudes, and of meanings. On Zalabardo's account, what makes the sentences of these discourses have the meanings they have are the procedures that regulate their acceptance and rejection.

Jos¿. Zalabardo presents a new account of central ideas in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus on the structure of reality and our representations of it in thought and language. He explores Wittgenstein's picture theory of propositional representation, the unity of facts and propositions, and the nature of everyday propositions.

This volume comprises nine lively and insightful essays by leading scholars on the early philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. They explore three central themes: the relationship between Wittgenstein's account of representation and Russell's theories of judgment, the role of objects in the tractarian system, and Wittgenstein's philosophical method.

José L. Zalabardo defends a reliabilist theory of knowledge that belongs firmly in the truth-tracking tradition. His account refutes standard lines of sceptical reasoning-including the regress argument, sceptical hypotheses, and the problem of the criterion-but Zalabardo goes on to explore one argument against which the theory offers no defence.

Jos¿. Zalabardo presents a new account of central ideas in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus on the structure of reality and our representations of it in thought and language. He explores Wittgenstein's picture theory of propositional representation, the unity of facts and propositions, and the nature of everyday propositions.