The Uses of Sense: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language
Charles Travis- ISBN: 0199245878, 9780199245871
- Page count: 416
- Published: 2001-11-22
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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- Author: Charles Travis
This book provides a novel interpretation of the ideas about language in Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. Travis places the "private language argument" in the context of wider themes in the Investigations, and thereby develops a picture of what it is for words to bear the
meaning they do. He elaborates two versions of a private language argument, and shows the consequences of these for current trends in the philosophical theory of meaning.
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