Purpose and Meaning

Wittgenstein's repudiation of Logicism is not based on the detection of some hitherto overlooked subtle detail, but on a profound shift of orientation in his concept of Semantics--from that of a Theoretical discipline to that of a Practical one.  That is, Meaning is now no longer a property of Language, but one of the act that produces Language.  In other words, he re-casts Meaning as Purpose, and, hence, as Pragmatist beyond even Dewey's concept of it as Consequence.  However, he stops short of explicitly recognizing that Semantics, accordingly, becomes a branch of Psychology and/or Morality, preferring to attend to painstakingly disconnecting it from its subsumption under Logic, perhaps because he prefers to think of his procedure as discovery and observation, rather than as positing and constructing.  As a result, the Investigations less shows the fly the way out of the bottle, than tries to convince it that it is inside a bottle, by repeatedly leading it to bump up against the insides of the bottle.