... world consists of facts rather than of things. Rather, a description of the world consists of statements of facts ... composed of redness and circularity concatenated together, since facts are not composed of anything and do not ... Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies consists of thirteen thematically linked essays on different aspects of the philosophy of Wittgenstein, by one of the leading commentators on his work. After an opening overview of Wittgenstein's philosophy the following essays fall into two classes: those that investigate connections between the philosophy of Wittgenstein and other philosophers and philosophical trends, and those which enter into some of the controversies that, over the last two decades, have raged over the interpretation of one aspect or another of Wittgenstein's writings. The connections that are explored include the relationship between Wittgenstein's philosophy and the humanistic and hermeneutic traditions in European philosophy, Wittgenstein's response to Frazer's Golden Bo

notably by Wittgenstein when he said that iv An Essay on Facts the world is the totality of facts, not things … negative one (1971, 236, 213). Wittgenstein himself says that “the world is determined by the facts, and … “fitting,” it is far from clear that it is facts rather than things that sentences fit. It is the white snow

. Wittgenstein there announces that the world is the totality of facts and that every fact is contingent ... defends the “brutality of compositional facts ”, the view that whenever there is an object composed of some ... sums of facts . Cresswell (Cresswell 1972) is in the set camp, Wittgenstein (TLP), it seems, in the plurality ...