Beyond the Inner and the Outer

Wittgenstein''s aphoristic style holds great charm, but also a great danger: the reader is apt to glean too much from a single fragment and too little from the fragments as a whole. In my first confron­ tations with the Philosophical Investigations I was such a reader, and so, it turned out, were most of the writers on Wittgenstein''s later philosophy. Wittgenstein''s remarkable ability to bring t...