ABSTRACT
This chapter considers some of the points specially stressed in this posthumous work of Wittgenstein's, and to see how they fit in with the points raised in his other published work and his informal teachings. Wittgenstein was responsible for a major revolution in philosophical thought. Wittgenstein is concerned to show how unsatisfactory all this really is, and to repudiate the whole primitive picture of shadowy correlates corresponding to the significant words in one's language, let alone the fiction of ultimate simple correlates corresponding to the words that lack an analysis in that language. Wittgenstein introduces, as a valuable expository and illustrative device, certain simplified models of linguistic usage which are known to him as 'language-games'. Wittgenstein's reason for objecting to a private language is that it would lack an acceptable standard of correctness. Wittgenstein is unwilling to call anything a 'language' from which a public standard of correctness is absent.
