Fregean themes in the Tractatus: Context, compositionality, and nonsense

The aim of this paper is to argue for the new Wittgensteinians’ claim that Frege and Wittgenstein share a contextualist attitude with respect to the individuation of content and, as a result, an austere conception of nonsense. To do this, I offer alternative interpretations of the passages of the Tractatus in which Wittgenstein seems committed to the attitude opposed to contextualism—compositionalism.El propósito de este artículo es argumentar a favor de la afirmación de los nuevos wittgensteinianos de que Frege y Wittgenstein comparten una actitud contextualista con respecto a la individuación del contenido y, como resultado, una concepción austera del sinsentido. Para ello, ofrezco interpretaciones alternativas de los pasajes del Tractatus en los que Wittgenstein parece comprometerse con la actitud opuesta al contextualismo: el composicionalismoThis paper has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the research projects “Contemporary Expressivisms and the Indispensability of Normative Vocabulary: Scope and Limits of the Expressivist Hypothesis” (FFI2016-80088-P) and “Disagreement in Attitudes: Normativity, Affective Polarization and Disagreement” (PID2019-109764RB-I00), by the Regional Government of Andalusia under the research projects “Public Disagreements, Affective Polarization and Immigration in Andalusia” (B-HUM-459-UGR18) and “The Inferential Identification of Propositions: A Reconsideration of Classical Dichotomies in Metaphysics, Semantics and Pragmatics” (P18-FR-2907), and by the University of Granada under a “Contrato Puente” fellowship and the excellence unit FiloLab-UGR (UCE.PPP2017.04)S