Abstract:
The objective of this paper is an attempt to explicate the two different kind of logical analysis
of Wittgenstein, which was formulated in his two reputed books Tractatus and Philosophical
Investigation, in order to elucidate the meanings of sentence by analyzing the basic structure of the
language. Wittgenstein attempts to show that all the traditional philosophical problems can be
avoided entirely by application of an appropriate logical analysis. The analysis of language is an
important tool for solving philosophical problems. The role of language is a central concerned in his
philosophy, because Philosophy, in general, is a study of knowledge. Knowledge is conveyed through
our ordinary language; in other words, it is ordinary language that carries knowledge. However, the
ordinary language often creates troubles in understanding the true meaning of philosophy. It also
creates ambiguity and confusion. Therefore, the ambiguity and uncertainties inherent in language
misleads understanding of knowledge. Wittgenstein believes that by explicating “language” they
could unravel the meaning of knowledge as an objective independent entity. In this way
Wittgenstein, as an analytic philosopher, adopted two different analytic methods to analyze
language and produced two philosophies on the basis of his theories of meaning which are picture
theory and language game. Therefore, this study intends to explicate these two theories of meaning
through the Wittgenstein' different analytic method. This study mainly a qualitative research solely
based on a literature review on the different method of Wittgenstein and hence scholarly original
works of Wittgenstein will be reviewed. As such analytic, descriptive and comparative methods will
be employed to reveal Wittgenstein's direction of philosophical activity on language. This study
gathers a details reference from the original writings of the Wittgenstein. In addition, secondary
related sources such as books, related documents, paper clipping and various other details from the
internet will be utilized for this research.
Keywords: Analysis, Language, Picture theory, L
