Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language: Some Aspects of its Development

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The picture theory and the Tractatus ontology
A sketch of the picture theory of language	p. 14
The thesis that the meaning of a name is its bearer, and the determinacy of sense	p. 33
Names and simple objects	p. 55
Wittgenstein's later discussion of simples	p. 74
The abandonment of the picture theory
The problem of intentionality and the shipwreck of the picture theory	p. 102
The intentionality of assertions	p. 119
Consequences of Wittgenstein's post-Tractarian account of intentionality for doctrines of the Tractatus and for the course of Wittgenstein's later work	p. 135
Use
The 'calculus theory' and anti-psychologism	p. 169
Wittgenstein's rejection of the calculus theory	p. 180
Is there a later account of use?	p. 199
Simples again	p. 218
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