Companion to Wittgensteins Tractatus Science Essay
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Black adds that the notion of showing itself, “fails to resolve the metaphysical perplexity – how can language be connected with the world?”. He argues that Wittgenstein addresses this by “invoking . . . further elementary propositions”, which is akin to the following analogy: “if a child is puzzled why a stamp sticks to an envelope, it will hardly help him to be told that lots of other stamps can stick to envelopes” [Black 15].