ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the relevance of some of the things that Wittgenstein says in section xi for this matter of discerning the humanity in a man, that is, for understanding another person. It is also generally recognized that there is much in the section of significance for aesthetics and the philosophy of art, the business about seeing and seeing-as is perhaps only the most obvious example, and main concern will be to make the connection between understanding people and understanding art. The "real" work of art is said to be, instead, an experience in the mind of someone or other, the artist and/or his audience. This kind of theory is frequently conjoined with the assumption that art is a form of communication whose aim is to produce in the mind of the spectator an experience like that of the artist.
