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Title: | The Private Language Argument |
Authors: | Graves, Peter |
Advisor: | Simpson, Evan |
Department: | Philosophy |
Keywords: | Philosophy;Philosophy |
Publication Date: | Aug-1974 |
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> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9723 |
Identifier: | opendissertations/482 1132 877413 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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