Abstract

In this article, my contention is to elicit Wittgenstein’s contribution to style in philosophy in the light of Brian McGuinness’ remarks on his Tractatus Logico-philosophicus. I suggest a stylistic understanding of change of method from the first writings (still indebted to a kind of Platosbetrachtungsweise conception of meaning) to the Philosophical Investigations. Refuting the commonly adopted interpretation of the Unsayable as being the silent end of the Tractatus. I suggest to put the emphasis on expressivity of fact-stating elucidatory acts, based on 4.115 as I read it after Brian McGuinness. In contrast with analytic method, style becomes new ways of articulating problems devoid of reference to “compoundsµ (elements or wholes).