ABSTRACT
The first major movement associated with Wittgenstein's later work is ordinary language philosophy (OLP). The later Wittgenstein seems to have thought this, although one could practice OLP without agreeing with Wittgenstein about everything. Rather like a practitioner of OLP, he wrote the Investigations with very little technical terminology and said that his aim is to bring words back to their everyday use. One piece of Wittgenstein's philosophy that survived a relatively long time, at least as a subject considered worthy of discussion, is the so-called private language argument (PLA). One of the most famous comes from Saul Kripke, who claims to be presenting neither his own view nor Wittgenstein's, but "rather Wittgenstein's argument as it struck Kripke". Kripke's Wittgenstein brings together the PLA with the remarks on rule-following, which had previously been treated as largely separate issues. This is close to Richard Rorty's idea of what truth is, and his version of Wittgenstein is another that we should consider here.
