ABSTRACT
The remarks of this instalment centre on the nature of assertions, questions and orders. Wittgenstein takes issue with the suggestion that such forms of speech contain thoughts (or ‘assumptions’) modified in various ways, discourages us from drawing philosophical conclusions from the fact that questions and commands can be converted into assertions, and reminds us of the enormous variety of ways in which sentences are used. In addition he examines the view that animals do not talk because they do not think.
