Private Languages and Private Theorists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10691326 |
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| Authors | David Bain (0000-0001-9271-0007, University of Nottingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 216 |
| Pages | 427-434 |
| Publication date | 2004-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0031-8094.2004.00362.x |
| OpenAlex | W2074079201 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Simon Blackburn objects that Wittgenstein's private language argument overlooks the possibility that a private linguist can equip himself with a criterion of correctness by confirming generalizations about the patterns in which his private sensations occur. Crispin Wright responds that appropriate generalizations would be too few to be interesting. But I show that Wright's calculations are upset by his failure to appreciate both the richness of the data and the range of theories that would be available to the private linguist
Algorithm · Argument (complex analysis) · Art history · Correctness · Epistemology · Linguistics · Sociology · Wright · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Mathematics · Philosophy · semigroups and automata theory · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Highly cited | No |
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