QuoteRef: kripSA_1982 ;;ix "It deserves emphasis that I do not in this piece of writing attempt to speak for myself, or, except in occasional and minor asides, to say anything about my own views on the substantive issues. The primary purpose of this work is the presentation of a problem and an argument, not its critical evaluation.

3 ;;Quote: private language argument--it is not possible to obey a rule privately, otherwise belief would be the same as obeying

7 ;;Quote: central problem of Philosophical Investigations--if an action was determined by a rule, then all actions could be made to accord with the rule; a form of skepticism

7 ;;Quote: consider quus which is 5 if either summand > 57; it could be '+' if we hadn't seen any summands > 57

21 ;;Quote: there is no fact about my internal mental history or external behavior that distinguishes quus from plus; no foundation for language

34 ;;Quote: if define 'plus' by a machine or program, it could be 'quus' due to instruction definition, finiteness, or machine malfunction

37 ;;Quote: the relation of meaning and intention to future action is normative, not descriptive; e.g., 68+57 should be 125

55 ;;Quote: for each new application of a word, we make a leap in the dark; our intention could be interpreted arbitrarily

58 ;;Quote: the confusion between plus and quus applies to any rule or word; e.g., in the past we meant grue by 'green', and now the sky is green

72 ;;Quote: under what conditions can a declarative sentence be asserted or denied; and what is the role of such assertion/denial; but not primary

72+;;Quote: a declarative sentence gets its meaning by virtue of its truth conditions; basic idea of Tractatus

77 ;;Quote: numerals do not stand for number entities; look at the conditions and utility for using numerals

89 ;;Quote: if consider a person in isolation, a rule can have no meaning; nor truth conditions that verify rule use

91 ;;Quote: a person is an adder if the community agrees about his additions and procedures; those who deviate are corrected

91+;;Quote: someone who is an incorrigible deviant in enough respects simply cannot participate in the life of the community and in communication

92 ;;Quote: a customer when dealing with the grocer expects the grocer to count and add as he does

93 ;;Quote: our entire lives depend on the 'game' of attributing to others the mastery of certain rules; e.g., the rule of addition

96 ;;Quote: the 'game' of attributing concepts to conforming individuals would lose its point outside of the community

96 ;;Quote: the set of responses in which we agree, and the way they interweave with our activities, is our form of life; it is a brute fact

97 ;;Quote: that we mean addition by '+' is part of a 'language game' that sustains itself by the brute fact that we generally agree

97+;;Quote: there is no objective fact about '+' that explains our agreement in particular cases

99 ;;Quote: Wittgenstein's skeptical solution depends on agreement and checkability; e.g., for using 'table' and 'pain'

101 ;;Quote: each person who claims to be following a rule can be checked by others in the community; a primitive part of the language game

126 ;;Quote: we have no idea what a 'mind' is; even, what does it mean for a physical object to have a 'mind'?; confused

129 ;;Quote: to distinguish someone else's pain from my own, need to determine what is it for a body to 'have' a mind that has sensations

129+;;Quote: attempting to connect sensations and physical objects without 'mind' or 'self' leads to dislocated sensations

134 ;;Quote: my attitude towards a person in pain is an attitude toward a soul; we rush to his aid, we attempt to comfort him; not like a mechanism

134+;;Quote: instead of asking what a 'self' is, ask what role does ascriptions of mental states to others play in our lives

136 ;;Quote: we see our fellow humans as human beings, not as physical systems; e.g., we ascribe mental states rather than describe behavior