Abstract
In the preceding chapter, we have repeatedly had occasion to refer to the ordinary understanding of language as that realm from which a logical analysis of language departs and which in important though not exclusive ways sustains such an analysis. It is plausible to expect that a turn to ordinary language would enable one to understand and overcome the limitations and impasses to which one is led in the pursuit of rigor and precision in language. Wittgenstein, who had been one of the most influential representatives of this puruit, was also the one who criticized this approach most incisively and was most consequential in providing alternative investigation of language.