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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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Charles Travis is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, Illinois.
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`thorough and wide-ranging explorations ... he is clearly very much in command of his material.'
Bede Rundle, Trinity College, Oxford, Mind
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- PublisherClarendon Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0199245878
- ISBN 13 9780199245871
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- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages414
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