This book provides a novel interpretation of the ideas about language in Ludwig Wittgensteins Philosophical Investigations. Travis places the private language argument in the context of wider themes in the Investigations, and thereby develops aMoreThis book provides a novel interpretation of the ideas about language in Ludwig Wittgensteins Philosophical Investigations. Travis places the private language argument in the context of wider themes in the Investigations, and thereby develops a picture of what it is for words to bear the meaning they do.
He elaborates two versions of a private language argument, and shows the consequences of these for current trends in the philosophical theory of meaning.