"Remarks on Colour" by Ludwig Wittgenstein ed. G. E. M. Anscombe (2007)

Description: Remarks on ColourLudwig WittgensteinEdited byG. E. M. AnscombeTranslated byLinda L. McALister andMargarete SchattleBilingual Edition University of California PressBerkeley and Los Angeles Editor's Preface"[Part III] of this volume reproduces most of a MS written in Oxford in the Spring of 1950. I have left out material on 'inner-outer', remarks about Shakespeare and some general observations about life; all this both was marked as discontinuous with the text and also will appear elsewhere. Part I was written in Cambridge in March 1951: it is a selection and revision of the earlier material, with few additions. It is not clear whether Part II ante- or post- dates Part III. It was part of what was written on undated loose sheets of foolscap, the rest being devoted to certainty. Wittgenstein left these in his room in my house in Oxford when he went to Dr. Bevan's house in Cambridge in February 1951, in the expectation of dying there. His literary executors decided that the whole of this material might well be published, as it gives a clear sample of first-draft writing and subsequent selection. Much of what was not selected is of great interest, and this method of publication involves the least possible editorial interpretation." I 1. A language game: Report whether a certain body is lighter or darker than another.- But now there's a related one: State the relationship between the lightness of certain shades of colour. (Compare with this: Determining the relationship between the lengths of two sticks - and the relationship between two numbers.) - The form of the propositions in both language-games is the same: "X is lighter than Y". But in the first it is an external relation and the proposition is temporal, in the second it is an internal relation and the proposition is timeless. 2. In a picture in which a piece of white paper gets its lightness from the blue sky, the sky is lighter than the white paper. And yet in another sense blue is the darker and white the lighter colour. (Goethe). On the palette white is the lightest colour.

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