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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.advisor | Simpson, Evan | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Graves, Peter | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T16:48:07Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T16:48:07Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2009-06-22 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 1974-08 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/482 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 1132 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 877413 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9723 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>An exposition of Wittgenstein's arguments against the possibility of a private language is given with the hope of making the arguments clearer. It is shown that because of the impossibility of a private language and because of the impossibility of words having private references in a public language, the notion of a private experience is unintelligible. The last chapter shows that a positive account of what sensations are is given in the Philosophical Investigations, which manages to avoid the impossibility of a private act of naming and also avoids the untenability of behaviorism.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.title | The Private Language Argument | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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