WITTGENSTEINS USE OF THE WORD ASPEKT

Wittgenstein frequently uses the word 'aspect' (Aspekt) in his writing s from 1947 to 1949. There he uses the word along with aspect-seeing a nd aspect-change, so that readers are misled into thinking his primary concern in using the word is something like Gestalt psychology or phi losophy of psychology per se. However, Wittgenstein's late treatment o f aspect is only a special case of a more general problem, namely phen omenology. In the middle-period writings, the word 'aspect' refers to a phenomenological object. Basically, Wittgenstein's aspect means the way an object appears to us. For him, an 'aspect' is a phenomenologica l object.