ABSTRACT
When one thinks of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, and in particular of §§243-315, the word ‘übersichtlich’: that is, ‘easy to survey’, ‘synoptic’,1 does not spring to one’s lips. One is much rather reminded of the way Wittgenstein characterizes the book in the Preface: as ‘travel(s) over a wide field of thought, criss-cross in every direction’:
The same or almost the same points were always being approached afresh from different directions, and new sketches made. . . . Thus this book is really only an album.
