ABSTRACT
This chapter gives reason for thinking that, paradoxical as it might sound, the best thing to say, on balance, is that Wittgenstein offers no account of meaning, at all, no matter of what kind. Alternatively, we are free to say that Wittgenstein entertains various accounts – that such accounts are in that sense very much present within his text – but that none is presented as definitive/dogmatic and they are only offered up as objects of comparison to work through a particular problem(s). In this latter sense too, Wittgenstein is not offering an account in the sense in which that term is standardly used in philosophy: an account that one attaches to or privileges.
