ABSTRACT
Peter Hacker has reminded us in his contribution to this volume that the apparently unbroken sequence of remarks on the nature of philosophy running from section 89 until section 133 of the Philosophical Investigations is, in fact, constructed from material dating from two different periods. Sections 108(b)–133 were written in 1931, but sections 89-108(a) were written six years later, in 1937. The question I would like to address here is how far, if at all, this information about the prehistory of this portion of the Philosophical Investigations1 might inform our reading of it in its final form, the form in which Wittgenstein eventually presents it to his readers.
