This is not an argument. It is a complete misconstruction of Wittgenstein's thought, and my own, to say that it "follows" from the relationship between a language game and a form of life that one cannot understand a practice without first understanding the "larger social practices," whatever they may be. But perhaps my own unfamiliarity with Winter's use of these terms concealed some consistency with my own convictions. Perhaps the "larger social practices" were not political and social movements, which are as irrelevant to being able to practice law legitimately as is an understanding of mortgage interest rates to being able to build a structurally sound house.

XREF: Challenges the common reading of Wittgenstein's language game / form of life relationship that many practitioners assume.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 798