Sentence examples for language argument from inspiring English sources

His subversion of this picture of language is not easily summarised without distortion – not least because the nature of the so-called private language argument, or even its existence, is itself hugely contested.

Wittgenstein's attack on this viewpoint, which has come to be known as the "private language" argument, has been much discussed, partly because it was in this area that Wittgenstein presented what could most easily be identified as a more or less formal argument one that could then be analyzed and criticized in an analytic manner.

Objectivity features prominently in the private language argument.

The second line of thought is Wittgenstein's 'private language argument'.

One of its aims is to develop general procedures for natural language argument recognition and reconstruction.

An ordinary language argument for the existence of Fs goes as follows.

(a) What we may call ordinary language arguments.

One impetus for the development of informal logic has been the view that natural language arguments do not fit the deductive framework emphasized in traditional logic.

What is true is that fictionalism presents problems for Thomasson's specific way of arguing for ontological deflationism, by appeal to ordinary language arguments.

In doing so, the deductivist may note that implicit premises are a generally accepted feature of natural language arguments, and invoke standard ways of identifying implicit premises.

Our aim here is to draw on this growing body of knowledge in informal logic in order to take preliminary steps towards developing an architecture for computer systems that are able to recognise and reconstruct natural language arguments.