Meaningless Awakening: Wittgenstein 's Early Meaning Theory' S Criticism And Salvation Of Metaphysics

Although the research literatures on L.Wittgenstein’s early theory of meaning were a dim a dozen, we found that most of them are holding ‘truth-value of theory of meaning’,which is generally considered Wittgenstein’s early theory of meaning equal to its truth-value or associated with truth-value.However this interpretation will make some Wittgenstein’s early works,such as Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus and Notebooks 1914-1917 and so on, discrepancy,even there are many contradictions.If a proposition has a sense, then the proposition is true;if a proposition has not a sense,then it is false.So that between sense and nonsense had an unbridgeable chasm,and fails to explain the meaning of Wittgenstein’s philosophy as a kind of practice.This article based on the ‘theory of use’ and ‘theory of practice’ to clarify the concept of ‘sense’ and ‘nonsense’,so can we build a bridge between sense and nonsense.Consequently,we can make the Wittgenstein’s early theory get a reasonable explanation.The point to argument of this article can be attributed as follows:(1)Wittgenstein’s concept of ‘world’ and ‘object’ have different usage.World indicates both semantical concept and realistic concept.Object not only is a logical necessity, but also stand for material substance.(2)The concept ‘show’ and ‘unsayable’ is not one-to-one correspondence, and the ‘show’ itself is a concept of ‘theory of practice’.(3)Clarufy the connotation of the concept of ‘sense’ and ‘nonsense’ in the ‘theory of use’ and ‘theory of practice’ perspective.We argue that meaning is not only related to truth-value,and nonsense is just at the truth-value level.But,if in the theory of practice,it related to value and other significance.(4) On the basis of(3) and the introduction of the ‘theory of show’, Wittgenstein’s metaphysics was given a new life.From this perspective, Wittgenstein is a philosopher who complete similar to Kant.