Even though Ludwig Wittgenstein, as far as we know, did not (explicitly) maintain some particular position on the nature of art and the possiblity of defining works of art, he had a great influence in analytic aesthetics. However, it would be wrong to say that his idea was always understood uniformly, in aesthetics as well as in general philosophy. On the contrary, those very philosophers who considered themeselves the followers of Wittgenstein, most notably Morris Weitz, understood it less conventionally than one could expect considering their attitude towards Wittgenstein's later philosophy It is natural to understand Wittgenstein's opposition to the traditional platonistic assumption that the concepts are always applied on the basis of a...