In "The Social Construction of the Self" Kenneth Gergen provides further grounds for rejecting the idea that we have private, introspective, infallible knowledge of ourselves. Drawing on the work of Wittgenstein, Kuhn, Foucault, Mead, and Vygotsky, Gergen argues that all experience and knowledge of the self is mediated by language and relations with others, and so there is no self that can be known or that can exist independent of its relation to others. The self is thus fundamentally a relational being, constructed through conversational, narrative, and cultural practices.