Wittgenstein’s teaching-by-examples passage actually supports, not refutes, saying things about practices.

Evidence

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. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 711

Categorization

• QUESTION: Whether a critic’s own quoted authority can be turned against their argument is a recurring move worth studying.
• XREF: connects to: Wittgenstein never treated practice as an isolated conceptual primitive — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 719

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• Winter is not writing about Wittgenstein, but about the Wittgensteinian account, which I fear must mean me. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Wittgenstein never treated practice as an isolated conceptual primitive #corroborates (0.60) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 719