Linguagem privada, significado e comunitarismo nas Investigações Filosóficas de Wittgenstein

Abstract

This work has as its main subject the study of the Private Language Argument, by Wittgenstein.Saul Kripke, in On Rules and Private Language (1982), developed an interpretation of the Private Language Argument, attaching it to the question of rule-following and skepticism. As a result, is the development of a communitarian view on Wittgensteins argument. Thus, we start from a study of the arguments of Wittgenstein and of Kripkes Wittgenstein, aiming to a confrontation between them. This confrontation seeks to throw some light in the characteristic presuppositions of Kripkes interpretation, making possible to evaluate it in terms of his correction or not concerning Wittgensteins own view. Too, it analyses if it correctly considers the communitarian question about meaning that the Private Language Argument raise. Taking this point in relation to the question of meaning, we defend the possibility of a communitarian view of the Private Language Argument and how it can be developed adequately concerning the wittgensteinean thought, based on the results of the confrontation between the arguments by Wittgensteinand by Kripke on Wittgenstein.