The Uses of Sense: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language

By Charles Travis

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199245878
• ISBN13: 9780199245871
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"