Jamal Awil

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Understanding a practice differs from commenting on it. [definitional]

But nowhere of which I am aware does Wittgenstein claim that practice is a conceptual primitive, except as to the epistemology of some kinds of language games, which are, of course, only some kinds of forms of life. Winter confuses understanding how to play a game, for example, with understanding how to comment on it, or understanding how to depict it. Only if Wittgenstein claimed that a practice was an island, unconnected with any other practice, could such an absurd conclusion be maintained.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 719