ABSTRACT

What follows is by way of a long abstract of a sequel to another paper.1 I want to point, very schematically, to a connection well worth further study, between the kind of doubt about the possibility of private language which Investigations §258 should be seen as suggesting and an idea about our knowledge of our own intentional states -beliefs, desires, intentions, etc. - for which I have also claimed a Wittgensteinian origin in recent papers.2 But I shall try to presuppose no familiarity with those discussions.