Journal article
Some philosophical remarks to the Philosophical Investigations
Philosophiques, Vol.39(1), pp.9-34
03/01/2012
DOI: 10.7202/1011608ar
Abstract
The discussion of private language in the Investigations was written between 1937 and 1945, after the first 190 remarks of Part I of the book had almost reached their final form. The post-1936 writing on private language represents a fresh start, both in wording and in conception, on the pre-1936 material.
Nevertheless, Wittgenstein did repeatedly discuss the idea of a language which "only I myself can understand" 4 during 1929-36. One strand in this discussion that is directly taken up in the Investigations is the idea that "If I were to reserve the word 'pain' solely for what I had hitherto called 'my pain", and others "L. W.'s pain,"I should do other people no injustice, so long as a notation were provided in which the loss of the word 'pain' in other connexions were somehow supplied." 5 However, the discussion of this topic in the Investigations is much briefer than in the pre-1936 writing. I look at the relationship between 403 and texts from the 1929 notebooks and the Philosophical Remarks, assembled in the spring of 1930, mapping out the earlier development of this line of argument and exploring the principal continuities and discontinuities in Wittgenstein's treatment of private language.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Some philosophical remarks to the Philosophical Investigations
- Creators
- David Stern - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Philosophiques, Vol.39(1), pp.9-34
- Publisher
- Editions Bellarmin
- DOI
- 10.7202/1011608ar
- ISSN
- 0316-2923
- eISSN
- 1492-1391
- Number of pages
- 26
- Language
- French
- Date published
- 03/01/2012
- Academic Unit
- Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984398369402771
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