Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Arnauld / Nicole, Fred Dretske and Ludwig Wittgenstein
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19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language
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To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life [Wittgenstein]
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Was Wittgenstein's problem between individual and community, or between occasions for an individual? [Rowlands on Wittgenstein]
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If a brilliant child invented a name for a private sensation, it couldn't communicate it [Wittgenstein]
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We cannot doublecheck mental images for correctness (or confirm news with many copies of the paper) [Wittgenstein]
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If we only named pain by our own case, it would be like naming beetles by looking in a private box [Wittgenstein]
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If the reference is private, that is incompatible with the sense being public [Wittgenstein, by Scruton]
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Getting from perceptions to words cannot be a private matter; the rules need an institution of use [Wittgenstein]
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Solipsism is correct, but can only be shown, not said, by the limits of my personal language [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / a. Translation
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We translate by means of proposition constituents, not by whole propositions [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
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The doctrine of indeterminacy of translation seems implied by the later Wittgenstein [Wittgenstein, by Quine]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity
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Common human behaviour enables us to interpret an unknown language [Wittgenstein]
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To communicate, language needs agreement in judgment as well as definition [Wittgenstein]
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