In dictionaries:
private language argument
(philosophy) The argument, famously made by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), that a private language cannot exist.
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
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.
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