Wittgenstein on Private Language, Sensation and Perception (Elements in the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein)
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- Synopsis
- Wittgenstein's critique of private language in the Philosophical Investigations does not attempt to refute the possibility of a private sensation-language, let alone in any one argument, as has often been thought. Nor does it aim to establish that language is intrinsically social. Instead, PI §§243–315 presents a series of arguments, suggestions, questions, examples and thought-experiments whose purpose is to undermine the temptation to think of sensations and perceptual experiences as private objects occupying a private phenomenal space. These themes are clear developments of Wittgenstein's earlier critique of sense-datum theories (1929–1936) and his insight that naming is more complex than he had assumed in the Tractatus.
- Copyright:
- 2025
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- ISBN-13:
- 9781108944335
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781009506793, 9781009506793
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 10/27/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Michael Hymers
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
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- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Philosophy
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- This is a copyrighted book.