Abstract

In his preface to Wittgenstein: Language and World, Canfield briefly explains the plan of the work. Feeling that "Wittgenstein's later work remains, after decades of study, in significant part poorly grasped or misinterpreted," and that "to make Wittgenstein's thought available, what is needed are in-depth examinations of his major concepts," he proposes to undertake a part of that task by examining in detail the "two connected ideas, that of a 'criterion', or standard by which one judges truth, and that of a 'grammatical' proposition or remark." These are connected ideas because "statements of criteria are themselves grammatical remarks." In the same place Canfield claims that the positions he will set forth on criteria and grammatical remarks are not intended "to be of exegetical interest only" but to represent the truth in these matters.