ABSTRACT
Philosophy is a battle against the bewilderment of the intelligence by means of the language. Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations has been very far from providing us with anything like a well-workedout philosophy of mind on which a philosophy of language, of logic and mathematics, and of philosophy in general can be founded. It begins with the famous statements of the aim of Wittgenstein's philosophy: to show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle, to free it from the need to answer many 'deep' questions due to a misunderstanding of the uses of language. The tergiversations of the Philosophical Investigations drive us to this point, so that they must, despite surface appearances, harbour great dialectical stimulus. There was, however, always for Wittgenstein, beyond the laboratories of science and the concert-chambers of traditional philosophy, the immense background traffic and rumour of an ancient human city, the Vienna of human existence, with its innumerable interpersonal transactions and forms of life.
