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Private Language and Zombies

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Posted 08/18/09 - 10:56 AM:	#31
"MarchHare" wrote: But you must admit, this means that one cannot talk about the existence of a "private language argument of a certain Viennese providence", which as I've said was Fodor's point. You have essentially conceded Fodor's point, hence Fodor does not go fishing as often as he would like. Of course there isn't any argument, so in that sense I concede Fodor's point but still cannot see why he is concerned so much. Wittgenstein nowhere says he will offer any argument for this or that conclusion. As he said somewhere, all he does is "assemble reminders" to things already familiar to us. So Fodor can go sailing as often as he would like because he should be content with reading PI from section 242 on, where Wittgenstein simply reminds us that the idea of a private language is incoherent by describing the use of words like "pain" and "sensation". As for "original underived intentionality", which is the real issue in Fodor's exact quote, I wonder if Wittgenstein was ever in the business of showing that intentionality is underived and where it inheres. To be sure, he writes about intentions but I cannot find any passage in PI where he writes about intentionality (that is, aboutness) in general.

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