A STRAIGHT SOLUTION TO KRIPKE’S PROBLEM
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5840/eps202461219Abstract
The paper suggests a straight solution to the problem of meaning skepticism presented in Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language. The solution is based on Ladov’s moderate solution to the problem. Ladov’s solution is to the effect that total skepticism cannot be a theory because it cannot be stated without performative contradiction. This entails that only limited skepticism is possible as a theory. I argue that the limited skepticism is compatible with the view that meaning can be known provided the knowledge of meaning is construed as an internal part of a speech act, not as a result of the interpretation of behavioral facts.
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