Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language is a 1982 book by philosopher of language Saul Kripke in which he contends that the central argument of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations ce
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
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Philosophical Investigations is a work by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, published posthumously in 1953.
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
…Rules and Private Language is a 1982 book by philosopher of language Saul Kripke in which he contends that the central argument of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations centers on a skeptical rule-following paradox that undermines the possibility of our ever following rules in our use of language. Kripke writes that…
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The duck-rabbit illusion became famous when Wittgenstein used it to distinguish "seeing that" from "seeing as".