Wittgenstein's private language argument establishes that internal representations require public criteria, but this does not collapse the distinction between what is shareable in principle and what is actually shared.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who fundamentally changed how people think about language and meaning in the 20th century. He argued that many philosophical problems arise from misunderstanding how words actually work in everyday life, rather than from deep metaphysical mysteries. His ideas influenced not just philosophy but also mathematics, logic, and even how people approach psychology and artificial intelligence today.
private language argument
Wittgenstein's argument depending on the assumption that for words to be meaningful, their use must be open to public checking.