Abstract

In this work, I will first of all try to show how to stick to an austere conception of meaninglessness fails to adequately account for the issue of nonsense in the Tractatus logico-philosophicus (TLP), notably as regards the so-called pseudo-propositions of the «good» metaphysics, i.e., the pseudo-propositions that should express, if they could, the theses about the nature of language and of the world Wittgenstein allegedly defended in TLP. Moreover, I will claim that the traditional reading of TLP, which positively defends the theses that are denied by the four negative commitments constituting the core of the socalled resolute reading of TLP, is still the best interpretation of early Wittgenstein’s masterpiece.