Towards Convergence of Meaning (II): An Alternative Account

His [Wittgenstein’s] attitude is summed up by Goethe’s line in Faust: …‘In the beginning was the deed’… which he quotes with approval, and which might, with some justification, be regarded as the motto of On Certainty—and, indeed, of the whole of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy (Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, p.579). ¹