Thought's Footing
is an enquiry into the relationship between the ways things are and the way we think and talk about them. It is also a study of Wittgenstein's
Philosophical Investigations
: Charles Travis develops his account of certain key themes into a unified view of the work as a whole. The central question is: how does thought get its footing? How can the thought that things are a certain way be connected to things being that way?