mohammad ali abdillahi; fatemeh farahanian
Abstract
One of the most important and novel philosophical issues proposed by Wittgenstein in his late stage of thought and in his influential book Philosophical Investigations is the issue of private language. This issue is so important that one can say the epistemology of second half of twentieth century is ...
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One of the most important and novel philosophical issues proposed by Wittgenstein in his late stage of thought and in his influential book Philosophical Investigations is the issue of private language. This issue is so important that one can say the epistemology of second half of twentieth century is entirely under its influence. Wittgenstein believes that the only way to get rid of epistemological and semantic skepticism is the rejection of private language. Furthermore, the problem of other minds, which has been an insoluble problem due to acceptance of the theory of private language, becomes fundamentally dissolved by rejecting the private language. While other solutions to the problem of other minds such as the argument from analogy and behaviorism suffer from many problems
simin esfandiari
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This article begins with a brief description of Descartes' cogito and its effect on man's authenticity and his development. In fact, by establishing the principle of cogito, and analyzing it as the established basis of the universe, he considers human ego as the real subject because there is an "I" who ...
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This article begins with a brief description of Descartes' cogito and its effect on man's authenticity and his development. In fact, by establishing the principle of cogito, and analyzing it as the established basis of the universe, he considers human ego as the real subject because there is an "I" who is doing the thinking. According to Descartes, man is like a machine, and excels other beings. This privileged feature, i. e. self, whose substance is thinking, has been studied from different aspects within the entire thinking of the modern age. Moreover, it is this famous Cartesian principle – I think, therefore I exist – that focuses "subjectivism" in its philosophical system; therefore, "subjectivism" is one of the basic and important issues of Western philosophy that in its evolutionary phases has been epistemologically studied by Descartes as well as Kant and Hegel in the modern age. Finally, "solipsism" as the extreme point of "subjectivism" is dealt with in this article. Of course, Descartes avoids his subjectivism finding a solipsist interpretation in an ideal sense.
