Wittgenstein on Private Language, Sensation and Perception Hymers Hardback

Wittgenstein on Private Language, Sensation and PerceptionAuthor(s): Michael Hymers\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009506793, 978-1009506793\nSynopsis\nWittgenstein's critique of private language in the Philosophical Investigations does not attempt to refute the possibility of a private sensation-language, let alone in any one argument, as has often been thought. Nor does it aim to establish that language is intrinsically social. Instead, PI [tel] presents a series of arguments, suggestions, questions, examples and thought-experiments whose purpose is to undermine the temptation to think of sensations and perceptual experiences as private objects occupying a private phenomenal space. These themes are clear developments of Wittgenstein's earlier critique of sense-datum theories [tel] and his insight that naming is more complex than he had assumed in the Tractatus.