The Uses of Sense Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language [Hardcover]

This book provides a novel interpretation of the ideas about language in Ludwig Wittgenstein'sPhilosophical Investigations. Travis places the private language argument in the context of wider themes in theInvestigations, 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.