ABSTRACT
in the issue for April, 1958, there is an article by Mr Irving M. Copi on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. In the course of his argument he refers to my discussion note on paragraph 3.1432 of the Tractatus, which appeared in Mind for April, 1955.1 had assumed in this note, as Mrs Daitz, to whom I was replying, had assumed in her article, and as Russell had assumed in his Introduction to the Tractatus, that 3.1432 was about the proper analysis of ordinary-language sentences of the form “aRb”. Mr Copi, however, questions this assumption, as part of his general argument that the Tractatus is not about ordinary language. The paragraph is as follows:
We must not say, “The complex sign ‘aRb’ says ‘a stands in relation R to b’”; but we must say, “That ‘a’ stands in a certain relation to ‘b’ says that aRb”.
