Wittgenstein conceives language-games as parts of an activity or form of life.

Evidence

A principal point of Wittgenstein’s concept of a language-game is to emphasize that a language or rhetorical system like law is always “part of an activity, or of a form of life.” — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 793

Categorization

• XREF: Directly quotes Wittgenstein’s form-of-life concept; connects to the author’s broader rejection of practice fetishism in law. — connects to: Speaking a language means assuming its entire culture and civilization.; Ethnophilosophers undermine their own thesis under Wittgenstein-Quine logic; Yet, there is scarcely a page of Wittgenstein’s work, including his work on the foundations of mathematics, that is not devoted to an attempt to rescue our understanding of meaning by linking it to the ordinary practices of human beings using language; and the many striking examples of Wittgenstein’s imaginative anthropology are testimony to his commitment to the imaginative nature of rationality. Practice fetishism and particularism may indeed culminate in the denial that human beings can conserve and transmit shared experiences and in a related refusal to recognize the imaginative elements in human rationality. But because these very ideas-how human beings learn a language, how imagination plays a crucial part in that learning-are so much at the center of Wittgenstein’s work, it casts some doubt on whether Winter’s charges of fetishism, among others, are accurate. (+8 more)

Related

• Speaking a language means assuming its entire culture and civilization. (similarity 0.89)
• Wittgenstein never treated practice as an isolated conceptual primitive (similarity 0.87)
• Understanding a linguistic practice does not require understanding larger social practices first. (similarity 0.86)
• Wittgenstein denies psychological effects any necessary role in meaning while not denying their reality. (similarity 0.85)
• Winter insists that ‘the importance and ubiquity of imaginative processes such as metaphor undermine the Wittgensteinian claim that there is no more to meaning than its performative significance… (similarity 0.85)
• Ethnophilosophers undermine their own thesis under Wittgenstein-Quine logic (similarity 0.84)
• Yet, there is scarcely a page of Wittgenstein’s work, including his work on the foundations of mathematics, that is not devoted to an attempt to rescue our understanding of meaning by linking it… (similarity 0.84)
• Grammar is the set of rules enabling participation in a language game. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Grammar is the set of rules enabling participation in a language game. #expands (0.70) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 446
• Winter asserts ‘Consider how a Wittgensteinian such as Bobbitt might respond to Unger’s argument. First, he would exhort us to abandon the question of justification precisely because it… #responds-to (0.70)
• Wittgenstein never treated practice as an isolated conceptual primitive #expands (0.60) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 719
• Metaphysical distinctions between substances and universals stem from grammatical syntax. #expands (0.55) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 732
• Language is socially constructed and speaks through individuals #corroborates (0.50)