Generality, Rules and Normativity

Abstract

I have, throughout this book, focused on exploring Ramsey’s ideas within the context both of his developing commitment to the realistic spirit and his attendant rejection of certain unrealistic pictures presented both in TLP and by philosophical predecessors such as Russell and Frege. Continuing with that theme, I should, in this final chapter, like to say something about the ways in which the realistic spirit, or responses to ideas of Ramsey’s conceived in that spirit, can be seen to be manifested in the work of the middle and later Wittgenstein.