Everyday Language in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

In my essay, I would like (a) to propose an interpretation of proposition 5.5563 and its function in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; (b) to show that this proposition refers to a motif that is closely linked to the way in which Wittgenstein understood and practised philosophy, as well as to his refusal to assign any theoretical role or commitment to philos ophising; and, finally, (c) to argue that this motif already appears in the writings preceding and accompanying the drafting of the Tractatus, and re-emerges in 1929 – precisely the moment when Wittgenstein “officially” returns to philosophy