Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
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Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language is Saul Kripke’s influential interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, especially concerning rule-following, meaning, and the possibility of a private language.
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Target entity: Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language Context triple: [Saul Kripke, notableWork, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language]
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Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical Investigations is a highly influential 20th-century work of philosophy that reshaped analytic philosophy through its exploration of language, meaning, and the limits of philosophical inquiry.
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early 20th-century philosophical work that attempts to define the relationship between language, thought, and reality through a highly structured, logical framework.
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From a Logical Point of View
From a Logical Point of View is a landmark collection of philosophical essays by W.V.O. Quine that helped reshape analytic philosophy, especially through its critique of the analytic–synthetic distinction and its naturalized approach to epistemology.
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On Certainty
On Certainty is a posthumously published collection of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s late philosophical notes that investigates the nature of knowledge, doubt, and foundational “hinge” propositions.
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The Logical Structure of the World
The Logical Structure of the World is Rudolf Carnap’s seminal 1928 work in which he develops a rigorous, formal reconstruction of all scientific concepts from a phenomenalist basis, serving as a foundational text of logical positivism.
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Target entity: Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language Target entity description: Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language is Saul Kripke’s influential interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, especially concerning rule-following, meaning, and the possibility of a private language.
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A.
Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical Investigations is a highly influential 20th-century work of philosophy that reshaped analytic philosophy through its exploration of language, meaning, and the limits of philosophical inquiry.
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B.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early 20th-century philosophical work that attempts to define the relationship between language, thought, and reality through a highly structured, logical framework.
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C.
From a Logical Point of View
From a Logical Point of View is a landmark collection of philosophical essays by W.V.O. Quine that helped reshape analytic philosophy, especially through its critique of the analytic–synthetic distinction and its naturalized approach to epistemology.
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D.
On Certainty
On Certainty is a posthumously published collection of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s late philosophical notes that investigates the nature of knowledge, doubt, and foundational “hinge” propositions.
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E.
The Logical Structure of the World
The Logical Structure of the World is Rudolf Carnap’s seminal 1928 work in which he develops a rigorous, formal reconstruction of all scientific concepts from a phenomenalist basis, serving as a foundational text of logical positivism.
- F. None of above. chosen
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non-fiction book
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philosophy book ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
philosophy
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philosophy of language ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Kripkenstein ⓘ |
| author | Saul Kripke ⓘ |
| basedOn | Philosophical Investigations ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| discusses |
normativity of meaning
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private language argument ⓘ skeptical paradox about addition ('quus' example) ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Wittgenstein's later philosophy
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meaning as use ⓘ possibility of a private language ⓘ rule-following considerations in Philosophical Investigations ⓘ |
| genre |
analytic philosophy
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epistemology ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ |
| hasInterpretiveStance | skeptical interpretation of rule-following ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
community standards in rule-following
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indeterminacy of meaning under purely individualistic accounts ⓘ meaning determined by past usage ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
controversial interpretation of Wittgenstein
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highly influential in Wittgenstein scholarship ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary philosophy of language
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debates on meaning and normativity ⓘ discussions of semantic skepticism ⓘ interpretations of Wittgenstein ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Kripkenstein interpretation
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Ludwig Wittgenstein ⓘ meaning ⓘ private language ⓘ rule-following ⓘ skeptical paradox about rules ⓘ |
| notableFor |
argument about the impossibility of a purely private language
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influential secondary literature on Wittgenstein ⓘ skeptical reading of Wittgenstein on rules ⓘ |
| periodDiscussed | 20th-century analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| proposes | skeptical solution to the rule-following paradox ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| publisher | Harvard University Press ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
advanced students of philosophy
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professional philosophers ⓘ |
| title | Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language self-link ⓘ |
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