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This article aims to clarify the disconcerting beginning of the Blue Book where Wittgenstein states that the question "what is the meaning of a word?" is a problem that must be attacked, a beginning that is not even explained in the Blue Book itself. It will be argued that an appropriate way to understand that beginning is by resorting to the Philosophical Grammar, a text from the same time as the dictation of the Blue Book. It suggests to abandon the use of a special concept of "meaning" since such a concept is product of both mythological comments on the essence of language and a primitive philosophy of language. It will be argued that the beginning of the Blue Book evidences Wittgenstein's commitment to the strategy of eliminating the apparent need to construct a special theory of meaning in order to think philosophically about language.
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