The Private Language Argument
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Wittgenstein and his answer to the transcendental deduction of Plato
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Thus, his Philosophical Investigations can be read as Wittgenstein's answer to Plato's transcendental deduction. Plato argued that the meanings of general terms require us to have a grasp of abstract, supra-sensible forms (or universals). He then went on to deduce that our soul cannot be a material entity. Wittgenstein attempts to destroy every vestige of this argument. He appears at times to be attacking Hume's theory of meaning, but he does so mainly because he regards it as being dangerously close to collapsing into Plato's theory of meaning.
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Contents of
The Private Language Argument
1 Modern philosophy, introspection and behaviourism
2 Wittgenstein and the private language argument
3 Wittgenstein and the referential theory of meaning - meaning is use, following a rule
4 Wittgenstein and the disappearance theory of meaning
5 Wittgenstein and his answer to the transcendental deduction of Plato
6 The private language argument and the conceptual analysis of the term I - language games
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