Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Ito, Masahiro
DOI
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Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to understand Philosophical Investigations (especially, its “private language argument”). I will understand it under the view point where form of life is the basis of language usage.
In order to discuss about “private language argument”, one has to understand the whole thought of Philosophical Investigations, therefore, I will introduce my understanding about Philosophical Investigations in the preliminary. It contains language-game, ostensive definition, family-resemblance and philosophy.
In the first chapter, I will discuss rule-following. Wittgenstein said, “it is not possible to obey a rule ‘privately’”. Therefore rule-following is public. However, there are arguments about this public character, i.e. whether the practice must be actually shared or sharable. I will endorse the view of sharable practice and point out that the basis of rule-following and language usage is form of life. The discussion of the first chapter supports the third chapter indirectly.
In the second chapter, I will discuss private language argument. The first thing I will confirm is “I feel pain” and “he feels pain” these two expressions have sense in our practices. Next will I discuss impossibility of a private word “S” and point out a kind of interpretation which insists skepticism about memory is wrong. Thereafter I will make the asymmetry between “I’m in pain” and “he is in pain” clear.
Apparent similarities in language make us bewitched, but we don’t doubt everything.
In the third chapter, I will discuss S. A. Kripke’s community view. Kripke thinks that the main theme of Philosophical Investigations is Humean skeptical problem and it’s solution, but this interpretation of Philosophical Investigations is not only incompatible with Wittgenstein’s texts but also with our practices. I will point out Kripke’s misunderstanding and problems which his interpretation entails.
Subjects
遵守規則
生命形式
私用語言論證
社群觀
Philosophical Investigations
rule-following
form of life
private language argument
community view
Type
thesis
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