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I offer ""Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations': Identity as Paradox"", a work in which I propose that Ludwig Wittgenstein's ""Philosophical Investigations"" overturns traditional philosophy. Traditional philosophy takes the laws of thought to ground in identity law, which law states of identity that ""it is itself"". This takes an identity to be a one-fold case of consistency, signified by ""it"", reflexively by ""itself"", and with the ""is"" functioning as a copula. My proposal is that Wittgenstein's thesis is an identity case is not a monistic consistency case signified-per identity law stating of identity that ""it is itself""-by ""it"", but is a paradox case to be signified by ""is"", the paradox faces of which are the ""it/itself"" cases. I have taken and treated with some 500 of the numbered remarks of Wittgenstein's ""Investigations"" in order to propose these to be assorted language games, each bespeaking the thesis of ""identity-as-paradox"". In another of my works, ""Diary of Atonement"", I have treated anew with key philosophies of the western tradition in order to show how each philosophy implicitly presents as the thesis of identity-as-atonement, i.e., identity-as-paradox.

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Bart Anthony Keegan, Ph.D., lives quietly in London pursuing his foremost interest: the philosophy of suffering. During his sojourns in England and Australia, he studied divinity and philosophy and began to question the meaning of life, the sense that theologians and philosophers made of it. This interest gradually focused on how to think about anything at all and the logic that is used as the tool of thinking. Bart met up with Anselm's proof for the existence of God and this changed entirely the direction of his interest. In that moment, he began to question if the way we think is in need of radical change from the root: the axioms of thought themselves. ""The Diary of Atonement"", ""Poems & Prose of Atonement"", and ""Identity as Paradox"" are the fruit of Bart's questioning: They offer up as their thesis that each identity-person or thing-in the story of the world is an atonement of opposites: a paradox, from which, Bart came to understand that suffering, as sorrow, together with its opposite such as glory qua that which is glorious are cases as paradoxically one another, where their paradox case as their common identity case is neither one of them but both of them at once, and this (borrowing from Anselm) as that than which nothing greater can be conceived-identity-as-paradox as, so to call it, creativity as such. Each identity in the story of the world is a creativity, presenting either wholly negatively, wholly positively, or by turns each of these opposites. By which, that which is called the problem of evil-here called the problem of suffering-is accounted for as warranted by the justice of creativity as such, the fruits of which thereby are the cases of good and evil, glory and suffering, rejoicing and sorrow-the head-and-tail faces, so to speak, of the coin of untold measure that is identity as paradox. Bart invites discussion regarding his work: trabkeegan@talktalk.net

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