ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains that those philosophers who thought that minds present epistemological problems were either bewitched of their intelligence by means of language, or they attempted to ask and answer questions in the way the natural scientists do. The book examines that no private language is needed to record our experiences; for all our mental experiences are public with no private components. In our opinion, the mind of a person is not something mysterious, to be known by some theory or private method, but it is revealed to us in linguistic and non-linguistic behaviour as occurring in the complex of conditions in which that person is situated. The present study is not committed to any specific methodology, as it is done at the level of ordinary language analysis: it remains neutral to the method to be adopted by psychologist in investigating mental phenomena.