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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9723
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dc.contributor.advisorSimpson, Evanen_US
dc.contributor.authorGraves, Peteren_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-18T16:48:07Z-
dc.date.available2014-06-18T16:48:07Z-
dc.date.created2009-06-22en_US
dc.date.issued1974-08en_US
dc.identifier.otheropendissertations/482en_US
dc.identifier.other1132en_US
dc.identifier.other877413en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://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.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.titleThe Private Language Argumenten_US
dc.typethesisen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPhilosophyen_US
dc.description.degreeMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
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