ABSTRACT
The anti-‘private-language’ considerations are a culmination of the entire liberatory trajectory of Wittgenstein’s text from section 1 onward: these considerations are ‘just’ another form of the question with which the early part of PI was clearly concerned, ‘What are you/we willing to count as language, and why?’ …Thus this chapter brings the body of the present text to its logical conclusion. The entire trajectory of Wittgenstein’s text in the PI, from Augustine and the ‘builders’ to ‘private language’, has the same fundamentally ethical, fundamentally ‘liberatory character’… The anti-‘private-language’ considerations are the natural continuation of the offering to the reader of the opportunity to decide where they stand on the question of what it takes for something to be counted as a language (and related/parallel questions) that began in the early sections of – the ‘overture’ to – Philosophical Investigations…
