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The Uses of Sense : Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780198249429
- ISBN-10: 019824942X
- Publisher: Clarendon Press
- Publish Date: April 1989
- Dimensions: 9.26 x 6.32 x 1.24 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.78 pounds
- Page Count: 416
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