But the third point is absurd. Here, Winter quotes Wittgenstein: "[I]f a person has not yet got the concepts, I shall teach him to use the words by means of examples and by practice.- And when I do this I do not communicate less to him than I know myself." … This scarcely is support for the view that there is nothing one may say about the content or structure of a practice. Indeed, the quoted passage is a profound example of just the sort of thing one might say about virtually all practices: it recapitulates the first two points in Winter's argument and asserts that understanding is a matter of being able to do something.

XREF: Connects to Wittgenstein's private language arguments and the general rule-following debate about practices.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 711