Rosa Lichtenstein

Sorry...should have been thread...with a "d" not a "t"

wow...I should pay more attention to my spelling :-S

Thank you for this threat

"What it is important to recall is that W was experimenting with various ideas, all the while challenging himself and others not to take a dogmatic view of language, or of anything else."

What about philosophy?

Well, what I was trying to get at, is that your arguments are very similar to Kripke's, who's interpretation of Wittgenstein's works have been questioned by some scholars...

But anyways, you never answered my second question...

I have a question for you:

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, one can highlight two contradictory ideas within Wittgenstein's work:

"That is, textual support can be found for two apparently conflicting exegetical claims:
Language is essentially social.
It is conceptually (even if not psychologically) possible that a lifelong Crusoe (i.e., a human being isolated from birth) should employ some kind of linguistic system and follow rules in so doing."

I assume you are a proponent of the 'community view' of language... So my question is, how do you reconcile the second point with the first? And what do you have to say to those who propose that a real-life Crusoe could exist?