Wittgenstein on formulae and variables

pp. 153-158

in: Karl Menger, Selected papers in logic and foundations, didactics, economics, Berlin, Springer, 1979

Abstract

This chapter contains a discussion, announced in [1961, 1] p. 349, of the single reference to mathematical variables that I found in Wittgenstein's writings published by 1961. The chapter begins with a full description of the context in which the remark occurs.