 Clearly, in the Tractatus Wittgenstein was not making the simple-minded mistake of forgetting that “Every F is G” cannot be analysed as “Ga &amp; Gb &amp; Gc…” even when a, b, c, etc. are in fact the only Fs. (Unfortunately, his claim that he registered this point in the Tractatus is not borne out by the text). His idea was rather that the Tractatus’s analysis of generality is offered only for the special case in which a, b, c, etc, are “individuals” in Russell’s sense. Wittgenstein had supposed that in this case there is no proposition to express the supplementary clause that is needed in the other cases. Unfortunately, Wittgenstein does not explain why there should be no such proposition, but the answer seems likely to be the following: What we are assumed to be analysing is actually “Everything is G.” In this case any allegedly necessary competing clause — for example, “a, b, c etc., are the only things” (that is, Tractarian objects) — would just be a nonsense-string produced in the misfired attempt to put into words something that is shown by the fact that when analysis bottoms out it yields as names only such as figure in the conjunction “Ga &amp; Gb &amp; Gc…” (cf. Tractatus 4.1272).