Beyond rules

I: Winch's emphasis on philosophy's concern with language and on rule-follo wing; II: Winch's misgivings about limits of analogy between rules and lang uage; III: Rhees' comparison of the unity of discourse with conversation, a nd claim that language makes sense if living makes sense; IV: Winch's later emphasis on the fragility of conditions for understanding both between cul tures and within our own.