Sentence examples for private sensation from inspiring English sources
The answer is that Kenny's and the Orthodox accounts share an unnoticed assumption: that even in the circumstances of the "private language" there is actually an application of a sign to a private sensation by a private linguist.
And Wittgenstein's (1953) influential criticisms of the notion of understanding as an 'inner process,' and of the idea of a language for private sensation divorced from public criteria, could be interpreted in ways that sever (phenomenal) consciousness from intentionality.
But how are personal secrets, shames and private sensations treated in these works?
But the ceremonial emphasis on family members is in keeping with the almost private sensations of this exhibition as well.
She must infer such unobservable private sensations from hearing her baby cry or gurgle; from seeing him flail his arms, or frown, or smile.
The problem for the philosopher who accepts sense-data is then to show how, on the basis of these private sensations, one can be justified in believing that there are physical objects that exist independently of our perceptions.
This suggests that audition does not provide special reasons to believe that the objects of perception are private sensations.
On a substantial/non-Pyrrhonian reading, Wittgenstein begins to clarify what kind of philosophically important notion of private language is to be examined, i.e., one that is necessarily private and which refers to one's immediate private sensations.
For this reason, a private-language, in which "words … are to refer to what only the speaker can know to his immediate private sensations …" (PI 243), is not a genuine, meaningful, rule-governed language.
(Such an interpretation would assume that if consciousness could secure understanding, understanding would be an 'inner process,' and if phenomenal character bore intentionality with it, private sensations could impart meaning to words).
