Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument

Philosophy Overdose July 24, 2022
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A few clips of a discussion on Wittgenstein's argument against there being a private language. The discussants include Stephen Mulhall and Denis McManus with the host Shahidha Bari. This comes from the BBC program Free Thinking. The full program can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d04n “If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.” #philosophy #wittgenstein #epistemology