num_pages: 416
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Uses of Sense: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language
titlecomplete: The Uses of Sense: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Clarendon Press