6 x 9 In this volume, Maria Cerezo examines Wittgenstein's
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as a response to some of Frege's
and Russel's logical problems. In analyzing the tractarian
conditions for the possibility of language, she explains the two
main theories of the proposition in Tractatus: the truth-
functions theory and the picture theory. Cerezo shows that
Wittgenstein initially separates the account of the structure of
a proposition from the explanation of its expression. However,
contrary to his intention, the combination of these theories
creates new difficulties, since the requirements of each theory
cannot be fully respected by the others. Cerezo also argues that
Wittgenstein's theory of language cannot be fully understood
unless attention is paid to his theory of expression and his
doctrine of projection by the metaphysical subject.