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

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.

1. Two Pictures of Semantics
2. The Making of Semantic Fact
3. The Uses of Language Games
4. Doubt and Knowledge Ascription
5. The Limits of Doubt
6. Through the Wilderness
7. The Autonomy of Fact-stating
8. The Problems with Private Semantics
Bibliography, Index