Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition

Saul Kripke has thought uncommonly hard about the central argument of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and produced an uncommonly clear and vivid account of that argument...set out with all the clarity, incisiveness and economy that one expects of its author. Times Literary Supplement Kripke's interpretation, and his arguments, deserve--and will repay--extremely careful attention. Philosophical Books