, and the formation of concepts different from the usual ones will become intelligible to him.
As this quote implies, Wittgenstein accepted all different points of view as being "correct." Rather than seeking a singular "truth" regarding the use of language, Wittgenstein claimed that there are many different possible "language-games" that people can play. As in the case of games, each language has its own particular set of rules and objectives. In the analysis of language, Wittgenstein advocated using the metaphor of games, in which "a given move can be judged only according to the rules of the game to which it belongs."
In developing his approach to language analysis, Wittgenstein did not seek to create a single, rigid theory which can be applied to all general cases. Rather, his system provides a flexible guide for the analysis of the various possible rules in language-games. As noted by Timothy Binkley in his text Wittgenstein's Language, the question in language analysis is not whether a particular expression is true or false; rather, it is "how we shall play the game, or perhaps how we shall view the game." From this point of view, "truth" is a relative concept. Thus, sentences are "not simply true or simply false; rather they are true at some specifiable time and in some specifiable language."
Wittgenstein expressed this idea in many different ways in his posthumously-published Philosophical Investigations. For example, in chapter ten of the second part of the book, Wittgenstein claimed: "My own relation to my words is wholly different from other people's." Wittgenstein believed that the same words and expressions may have different meanings in different times, depending upon how they are interpreted or what the intentions of the speaker are. With this view in mind, he asked the rhetorical question: "Is it, then, so surprising that I use the same expression in different games?" In explaining the relativ...