Wittgenstein's private language argument entails that a self constituted entirely apart from public, embodied practice could not sustain the rule-following necessary for self-ascription.
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private language argument
Wittgenstein's argument depending on the assumption that for words to be meaningful, their use must be open to public checking.
rule-following(Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument)
Continuing a practice in the same way as a community of like-minded others, such that the community's shared behavior fixes what counts as correct continuation.
self-ascription(Used in the context of how one develops a sense of being a unified conscious subject)
The act of attributing experiences to oneself as their subject