AbstractOne of the intellectual axes around which Wittgenstein¡¦s later philosophies revolved is easily stated. The conditions on the proper applicability of any rule are not codifiable; they are not covered by rules and are not describable by any legitimate specification in the declarative mode of speech. Such attempts to bind the conditions of applicability of one rule by further rules will fail, and attempts to describe those conditions adequately will result in nonsense, that is, forms of words that are not the appropriate conveyance of information. Infamously, Wittgenstein took sentences expressing logical truths and falsehoods (as we would have it) to be nonsensical. For the sake of expounding him, we had better say that nonsensical bunches of words fail to express nonlogical truths or falsehoods |