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Eds. G. H. von Wright, R. Rhees and G. E. M. Anscombe; trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (revised edition, Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1978). Hereafter cited as RFM. Subsequent references to Wittgenstein's other works will be as follows: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. C. K. Ogden (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1933) is cited as TLP; Philosophical Investigations, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1958) as PI; the “Frühversion” of Philosophical Investigations (discussed below in Section III) as FV; the “Mittelversion” of Philosophical Investigations (discussed below in Section III) as MV; Wittgenstein's 1939 Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, ed. Cora Diamond (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1976) as LFM; Remarks on Color, ed. G. E. M. Anscombe, trans. Linda L. McAlister and Margarete Schättle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977) as ROC; On Certainty, eds. G. E. M. Anscombe and G. H. von Wright, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe and Denis Paul (New York: Harper & Row, 1972) as OC; Philosophical Grammar, ed. Rush Rhees, trans. Anthony Kenny (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1974) as PG; Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, ed. Brian McGuinness, trans. Joachim Schulte and Brian McGuinness, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1979) as WVC; and Zettel, eds. G. E. M. Anscombe and G. H. von Wright, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (Berkeley: University of California Press 1967) as Z.
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Floyd, J. Wittgenstein on 2, 2, 2 ...: The opening of Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. Synthese 87, 143–180 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485332
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