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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2010
In the first part of this paper I will outline a feature of Wittgenstein's later views which has not to my knowledge been much noticed. In the second part I will suggest some light that it casts on two main Wittgensteinian themes. In the third part I will offer some critical ruminations.
1 All references, unless otherwise specified, are to the Philosophical Investigations. Sections in Part I will be referred to as above. Pages in Part II will be indicated e.g., by “II: 222.”
2 The point is, presumably, that when one learns this way, one has not (always) formulated rules.
3 Wittgenstein makes points of this kind in other contexts: e.g., in 33, 376, 646, and II: 211, 218.
