Following G. E. M. Anscombe, most commentators on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico‐philosophicus have held that §6.3751 rules out colour propositions as elementary propositions. However, a careful reading of some passages from The Big Typescript, MS 105 and MS 103, on the logical structure of colour and the logical analysis of colour statements, shows that the elementary propositions of the Tractatus include colour propositions. It follows that Anscombe’s interpretation of §6.3751 is mista…
Read moreFollowing G. E. M. Anscombe, most commentators on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico‐philosophicus have held that §6.3751 rules out colour propositions as elementary propositions. However, a careful reading of some passages from The Big Typescript, MS 105 and MS 103, on the logical structure of colour and the logical analysis of colour statements, shows that the elementary propositions of the Tractatus include colour propositions. It follows that Anscombe’s interpretation of §6.3751 is mistaken.
