Pasquale Frascolla’s Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Introduzione alla lettura is an excellent book, possibly the best complete presentation of Wittgenstein’s early work in many years. I found the book’s general layout and style extremely helpful both for students and for expert readers (though I missed a final list of commentedupon sections from the Tractatus and the Notebooks). I agree with most of Frascolla’s interpretive theses, though, predictably, not with all of them. Here l will focus on an area of partial disagreement, i.e. Frascolla’s discussion of Tractatus logic as contained in his Ch. 4 and part of Ch. 5. The account of logic that Wittgenstein provides in the Tractatus has proved controversial, both exegetically and substantively. Many have argued that it is...