ABSTRACT

It will be useful to consider, first, the kind of case in which the remark "'Someone" is not the name of someone' is intended to apply to a particular utterance. Anscombe herself imagines explaining to the confused person that 'Someone' does not figure in multiple quantification as a name of someone. In fact, it is useful to consider the way in which the clarification of the particular utterance can involve a point related to that made by Anscombe when she brings in multiple quantification, without actually bringing in multiple quantification. Wittgenstein held not only that there is a sense in which people cannot go wrong in logic, but also that they cannot specify the sense of propositions in some wrong way. For, if an utterance appears to be nonsensical at first, there may very well be some not-nonsensical way of taking.