ABSTRACT
Wittgenstein’s art of grammatical investigation is not a single method, but a variety of different grammatical techniques which are generously described and demonstrated throughout his later writings and lectures. His use of questions is one such technique, for the philosophical questions we ask (and the answers we seek) express our philosophical concepts and direct our investigations. Wittgenstein draws attention to our questions, and uses questions as a means of philosophical clarification. One of the methodological shifts from his early to his later writings involves the use of questions. As Engelmann observes:
his later attempts to correct his earlier results, as formulated in the reflective monologues of the Tractatus, in the light of his later insights generally mark a transition from the categorical proposition form of statements to the Socratic form of questions.
