Wittgenstein's Private Language: Grammar, Nonsense, and Imagination in Philosophical Investigations §§– – By Stephen Mulhall.
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Stephen Mulhall, Wittgenstein's Private Language: Oxford University Press, Grammar, Nonsense, and Imagination in PI Grammar, Nonsense, and Imagination in Philosophical Investigations, What is 'the Private Language Argument'?
McDougall - - Analytic Philosophy 54 1: Ethics and Private Language. Duncan Richter - - Philosophical Topics 38 1: Method in the Philosophical Investigations.
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Rather, Wittgenstein's aim is to exploit our everyday mastery of language in the investigation, in particular cases, of what we might mean by our words. In the case of the idea of a private language, the aim of the investigation is to show that attempts to give meaning to words which, in a philosophical context, we feel compelled to utter cannot give them a content that succeeds in expressing what the philosopher had it in mind to describe.
This description of Mulhall's aims does not, however, do justice to the singular nature of his text. Many interpreters would dissociate themselves from Malcolm's reading of Wittgenstein's remarks on private language. Many would also see the idea that the grammar of our everyday concepts can be used to prohibit the philosopher's use of words as committed to a view of language that is completely rejected in the Investigations.
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Yet a concern to find a reading of Wittgenstein's remarks on privacy and private language that avoids the suggestion of constraint, and which does better justice to his rejection of philosophical theorizing, would not on its own guarantee sympathy with Mulhall's treatment of them. The fundamental principle of Mulhall's approach is the need to be attentive to Wittgenstein's voice, and to resist substituting assertion for something that is essentially more interrogative and exploratory in tone.
The principle is clearly undeniable, and much of what Mulhall says in this book does clear and careful justice to it. However, there are also points in his discussion where his account of Wittgenstein's dialectic is unconvincing or unclear, and, more significantly, places where his discussion imports concerns that seem remote from the remarks he has focused on.