THE PRIVATE LANGUAGE ARGUMENT AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE SELF

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The private language argument contends that knowledge cannot be constructed upon a private sense or language which is sensible and knowable to only one person as the self. As contrary to the Cogito argument, it puts the public use of language as the basis of science, knowledge, communication and meaning. In the community, there are interpersonal relations as norms. The self as a person has access to his mental states by means of the public language that he or she speaks. The intentions, thoughts and feelings that make self free are acquired through the practice of public criticism in the moral community. Indeed, the rational self or a rational individual is formed through communities, not vice versa. That is to say that the human world is socially constructed in many ways

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Private Language , the Cogito Argument , Meaning , Paradigm

Afyon Kocatepe University Journal Of Social Sciences

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Afyon Kocatepe University Journal Of Social Sciences