Wittgenstein on private language, sensation and perception /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2025].
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 76 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [66]-76). |
| ISBN: | 9781108931175 1108931170 9781009506793 100950679X |