Book Reviews 87 © 2005 Editorial Board of dialectica Hochberg presuppose the existence of facts when they respond to Bradley’s regress – in the former case allowing for the possibility of infinitely many facts, in the latter case assuming that there are facts that fall within the range of the relevant description operator – (“ip”) – both Russell and Hochberg fail to resolve the difficulty for relations that Bradley identified. Of course this concern constitutes no more than a challenge to what Hochberg has said. The text of Appearance and Reality no doubt admits of several interpre- tations. And independently of historical details, it is notoriously difficult to pin down the structure or adjudicate upon the significance of regress arguments. Nevertheless, Hochberg’s treatment of Bradley’s argument and the counter I have suggested serves to typify what so often occurs when one engages with the details of Hochberg’s arguments. Not only does one discover a novel and distinctive perspective on themes that are perhaps all too familiar. One is also driven back to consider afresh the basic ontological problems that inspired the early analytic philosophers.* Fraser MacBride School of Philosophy, Birkbeck College, London * Thanks to Daniel Nolan and Herbert Hochberg. I am also grateful to the Leverhulme Trust whose award of a Philip Leverhulme Prize made possible the writing of this review. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.Oxford, UK and Malden, USADLTCDialectica0000-00002005 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.2005••••110Book Reviews Book Review Book Review Book Symposium “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Introduzione alla lettura” Manuel García-Carpintero, † Diego Marconi, Pasquale Frascolla Pasquale Frascolla, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Introduzione alla lettura, Carocci, Roma, 2000, 322 pp. Frascolla on Tractarian Logical Pictures of Facts Manuel García-Carpintero Frascolla’s book is an excellent introduction to Wittgenstein’s early work, provid- ing a compelling critical discussion of its most important themes. I agree with many of the interpretative and critical views that Frascolla puts forth. I like the central place that he ascribes to the logical and semantic problems that † Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència, Universitat de Barcelona, Baldiri Reixach, 08028 Barcelona; Email: m.garciacarpintero@ub.edu