The Uses of Sense: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language

✍ Scribed by Charles Travis

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 417
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Preface......Page 8
Contents......Page 16
1. Two Pictures of Semantics......Page 18
2. The Making of Semantic Fact......Page 54
3. The Uses of Language Games......Page 99
4. Doubt and Knowledge Ascription......Page 146
5. The Limits of Doubt......Page 205
6. Through the Wilderness......Page 257
7. The Autonomy of Fact-stating......Page 310
8. The Problems with Private Semantics......Page 354
Bibliography......Page 410
D......Page 413
L......Page 414
P......Page 415
T......Page 416
Z......Page 417