ABSTRACT
It was Wittgenstein's wish that the Philosophical Investigations be published in a volume containing his earlier work, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. This suggests a close connection between these works, and this is immediately borne out upon examining the text. Given Wittgenstein's method of presentation, it is difficult to fix labels to various portions of the Investigations, for he continually drops hints concerning future topics and often circles back over previously discussed material, approaching it from different angles. 1 With this reservation in mind, I suggest that the first 137 sections of the Investigations are dominated by criticisms of those commitments that led to the Tractarian system.
