5.535 Thereby also all problems that were connected with such pseudo-propositions take care of themselves.

All the problems that arise from Russell’s “Axiom of Infinity” can be solved here.

What the Axiom of Infinity is supposed to say would be expressed in language by there being infinitely many names with different meanings.

Ogden has ‘disappear’ for erledigen sich, while P&McG have ‘This also disposes of’, but my translation is more literal. It should be read as meaning ‘are dealt with by themselves’ or even ‘dispatched by themselves.’ ‘Connected’ could mean in one’s mind as well as in reality, by the way.

See also Russell’s Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy p. 142, where he says that if this axiom is not the case then “it must be theoretically possible for analysis to reach ultimate subjects, and it is these that give the meaning of “particulars” or “individuals.”” See Wittgenstein’s comment on what he means here on p. 50 of Letters to Ogden.

Black (p. 296) notes that it sounds as though Wittgenstein wants to ban certain formulas as pseudo-propositions, but that he says in 6.2 that mathematics consists entirely of pseudo-propositions. So maybe he doesn’t want to ban them after all.