Wittgenstein’s philosophical development is normally divided into two periods. The earlier one revolves around his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921), in which Wittgenstein claims that language is only meaningful when it describes contingent states of affairs. The propositions of logic, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics are thus strictly speaking meaningless, in that they are normative or otherwise non-factual. In these early works, Wittgenstein is predictably almost entirely silent about ar