Core concepts of forms of life

In previous posts, I said that the concepts of “true”, “morally good”, “beautiful”, "valid", “justified”, etc., were indefinable and irreducibly normative concepts.

I think today that this is perhaps a little too simplistic, or at least that this formulation is not the best one.

What I think today is that these words are “cores” of “forms of life”/“language games”. In other words, they each “enable” a language game of which they are the core.

Each of these words is used to attribute a “success” within a language game.

This explains why these words are, in a sense, indefinable and irreducibly normative; indefinable because they are cores (“primitives” that can only be understood by mastering the form of life they enable), and irreducibly normative because (1) a language game is a social and normative activity, and (2) because they serve to attribute a success in a language game.