Wittgenstein on Criteria and Practices

In the interpretive literature from the 1950''s through the 1970''s the term ''criterion'' was thought to be a central key to the understanding of Wittgenstein''s later philosophy. Later on, it was relegated from this place of honour to being one of a variety of expressions used by Wittgenstein in dealing with philosophical questions. This Element tries to account for the shifting fate of this con...