Thus I think the best way to understand Bourdieu is to treat him as saying that, given
the role tacit knowledge plays in explanation, the best theory is a dispositional one. And it is here that Wittgenstein becomes relevant, since he is one person who seems not only
to develop a theory of tacit knowledge as a set of dispositions acquired within a
community but also to have offered an a priori argument that all knowledge, even of
the most apparently intellectual character, reduces to this type of socially acquired concordance
in conduct. As he said:
The Grammar of the word ‘knows’ is evidently closely related to that of ‘can’, ‘is able
to’. But also closely related to that of ‘understands’ (mastery of a technique). (Kenny,
1994: 89. All Wittgenstein references which follow are to this edited collection.)