Directory of Private Language Argument Resources

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Discussion and exposition of Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument, both in its narrow development in sections 243--264 of the Investigations and in terms of the wider discussion of rules and privacy. Discussion of Kripke's meaning-skeptical interpreatation of the PLA is also appropriate.

Resources in This Category

• Private Language

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/
  Entry from the Stanford Encyclopaedeia of Philosophy.

• Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language

  http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~witt/
  The `ultimate homepage' by John Humphrey. A comprehensive and critical survey of Kripke's book by the same name. Its aim seems to be to finish off Kripke's position in that work.

• Wittgenstein's `Private Language' Argument

  http://www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/rbjcv/papers/ugp01.htm
  Undergraduate essay by Roger Bishop Jones commenting upon the PLA by attention to sections 243 to 264.

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