Uses of Sense

This book provides a novel interpretation of the ideas about language in Ludwig Wittgenstein's <em>Philosophical Investigations</em>. Travis places the private language argument in the context of wider themes in the <em>Investigations</em> 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.