ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author addresses the following danger. It is easy to think that when Ludwig Wittgenstein drops this idea of a common logical space, he replaces this theory of language with another one. Yorick Smythies insists that the person does mean what he says, and accuses Wittgenstein of reducing it to an attitude to a picture. It may be true that Wittgenstein's 'Lectures on Religious Belief' are fragmented and inaccurate, but their impact is remarkable. In the Tractatus, the life of reason entails a common logical space between speakers. In this way, the author can locate himself with respect to someone else. Wittgenstein rejects this notion of a single logical space. The picture of a common intellectual life as entailing a common logical space is not essential. In The Star of Redemption, Rosenzweig presents the ideal of a perfect language in which everyone will understand each other.
