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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: 9780199245871
- ISBN-10: 0199245878
- Publisher: Clarendon Press
- Publish Date: November 2001
- Dimensions: 9.16 x 6.2 x 0.81 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.32 pounds
- Page Count: 414
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