Elizabeth’s patient explanation in which she compared Wittgenstein’s interest in human life to Aristotle’s: ‘The special importance of language does not, then, flow from its being a particularly grand isolated phenomenon. It arises because speech is a central human activity, reflecting our whole nature – because language is rooted, in a way that mathematics is not, in the wider structure of our lives.’ This is why studying language is ‘an investigation of our whole nature’.[100]
