Wittgenstein Rules and Private An Elementary Exposition

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"Saul Kripke has thought uncommonly hard about the centralargument of Wittgenstein s Philosophical Investigations andproduces an uncommonly clear and vivid account of that argument ...clearly and compellingly presented ... an exemplary piece ofexposition." ( Times Literary Supplement )

"A detailed examination of what is clearly a central theme inWittgenstein s writings." ( Times Higher EducationSupplement )