ABSTRACT
The issues of the real existence of the objects of knowledge and their alleged intentional existence in knowledge may hardly seem as crucial in Wittgenstein’s thought as they are in Aquinas and his tradition. Perhaps that is why analytic philosophy has mainly overlooked aspects of Wittgenstein that are important for helping to solve some of analytic philosophy’s long standing problems. Thomists are in a position to recognize those dimensions of Wittgenstein and, therefore, use them to illuminate those problems.
