ABSTRACT
This is one of Wittgenstein’s most important statements about the nature of philosophy. Commentators seem reluctant to take it at its face value.
Peter Hacker comments on the first sentence: ‘It does not mean that there are no arguments in philosophy, or that no definitive conclusions can be drawn from them, e.g. that solipsism and idealism are incoherent, or that a private language is unintelligible’ (Hacker 1990: 329).
