Wittgenstein: How We Think

The “Private Language Argument” has Profound Implications

Juan Gris, Portrait of Picasso (detail), 1912. (Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons). In the early twentieth century, Cubist artists like Juan Gris sought to depict the way we really experience reality — in movement and change. In doing so, they complicated the relationship between the objects of focus and their backdrop — what art theory describes…