8 Life, Logic, Style On Late Wittgenstein Henry W. Pickford Abstract: While readers have long recognized the innovative styles of Wittgenstein’s writings, this chapter considers the philosophical signifi- cance of the concept, perception, and attribution of style in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and other works. Contrary to some interpreters, I argue in the first section that the later Wittgenstein continued to see philosophy as logic, but expanded his conception of what constituted “the logical” to include “forms of life,”“life,”“living,” and so on. In the second section, I draw on recent work on the logical form of judgment about living organisms to describe distinctive logical features of such judgment includ- ing necessity, unity, generality and its relation to particularity, and tem- porality, and in the third section, I show that this logical form and its distinctive features can elucidate claims made about forms of life in Philosophical Investigations. In the final section, I show how Wittgenstein’s concept of style exhibits the same logical features and thereby serves as a guiding metaphor for recognizing “the logical” in our everyday life- activities. Keywords: Style, Concepts, Perception, Logic, Judgement, Generality and Particularity, Language-Games, Lebensform, Logic and the Everyday, Necessity, Unity. To write the correct style means to set the wagon precisely on the rails. 1 A reader familiar with Wittgenstein’s later writings, and in particular the “rule-following considerations” in Philosophical Investigations, might well be taken aback by the image he uses in the epigraph to this chapter. In Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein uses the image of rails to 1 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bergen Nachlass, MS 117 225. Original: “Den richtigen Stil schreiben heißt, den Wagen gerade auf’s Gleise setzen.” 168 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108973687.009 Published online by Cambridge University Press