Wittgenstein’s Objection to Cartesian Tradition in the Context of Private Language Argument

Abstract

The private language discussion which Wittgenstein deal with in some sections of his later work Philosophical Investigation, has ben an important part of his general doctrine. As his life long philosophical study, the matter of solipsism and the position of language respect to, it has played a center role. In this manner, what is discussed through special language and solipsism is actually one’s ways of thinking everything based on himself. The position of Cartesian approach where these sorts of thought are materialized, can be handled as so. Wittgenstein has used private language discussion to criticise the preceeded Cartesian convention and similar traditions. In this article, it is attempted to point out the approaches within Wittgenstein’s argument about the impossibility of private language which makes Descartes’s cogito problematic.