This note critiques Beaney's uniform translation of Satz as proposition, suggesting it obscures key meaning concepts in Wittgenstein's work.
This short note discusses a particular aspect of Michael Beaney’s translation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, viz., the translation of the German term “Satz”, and argues that Beaney’s choice to uniformly translate “Satz” as “proposition” obscures key elements of the Tractarian concept of meaning.
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