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  1. Philosophy of linguistics

    The philosophy of linguistics is the philosophy of science applied to linguistics. It is concerned with topics including what the subject matter and theoretical goals of linguistics are, what forms linguistic theories should take, and what counts as data in linguistic research. This distinguishes the philosophy of linguistics from the philosophy of language, which deals primarily with the philosophical study of meaning and reference. Wikipedia

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  2. plato.stanford.edu

    Philosophy of linguistics is the philosophy of science as applied to linguistics. This differentiates it sharply from the philosophy of language, traditionally concerned with matters of meaning and reference. As with the philosophy of other special sciences, there are general topics relating to matters like methodology and explanation (e.g ...
    • Computational Linguistics

      "Human knowledge is expressed in language. So computational linguistics is very important." -Mark Steedman, ACL Presidential Address (2007) Computational linguistics is the scientific and engineering discipline concerned with understanding written and spoken language from a computational perspective, and building artifacts that usefully process and produce language, either in bulk or in ...

    • Brentano's Theory of Judgement

      1. An Outline of Brentano's Theory. In this section, we start with an overview of Brentano's theory of judgement, as far as it is contained in the first edition of the Psychology. [] It will be convenient to divide the material covered by Brentano in chapter 7 of this work (and the final section of chapter 6) into four parts.

    • Whorfianism

      Supplement to Philosophy of Linguistics. Whorfianism. Emergentists tend to follow Edward Sapir in taking an interest in interlinguistic and intralinguistic variation. Linguistic anthropologists have explicitly taken up the task of defending a famous claim associated with Sapir that connects linguistic variation to differences in thinking and ...

    • Innate/Acquired Distinction

      The distinction played an important role in the history of philosophy as the locus of the dispute between Rationalism and Empiricism discussed in ... , however, came from linguistics. The linguist Noam Chomsky argued that existing behaviorist accounts of the development of language were unworkable and offered a general argument for the ...

    • Language of Thought Hypothesis

      The language of thought hypothesis (LOTH) proposes that thinking occurs in a mental language. Often called Mentalese, the mental language resembles spoken language in several key respects: it contains words that can combine into sentences; the words and sentences are meaningful; and each sentence's meaning depends in a systematic way upon the meanings of its component words and the way those ...

    • Empiricism: Logical

      'Logical empiricism' here includes three groups: (1) the Vienna Circle, here taken broadly to include those who were part of various private discussion groups, especially that around Moritz Schlick, and also the members of the more public Ernst Mach Society (Verein Ernst Mach), (2) the smaller, but perhaps more influential Berlin Society ...

  3. en.wikipedia.org

    The philosophy of linguistics is the philosophy of science applied to linguistics. It is concerned with topics including what the subject matter and theoretical goals of linguistics are, what forms linguistic theories should take, and what counts as data in linguistic research.
  4. public.websites.umich.edu

    The interaction of linguistics and the philosophy of language regularly inspires florid description. One philosopher describes his discipline as the "initial central sun, seminal and tumultuous: from time to time it throws off some portion of itself to take station as a planet," and he goes on to suggest that linguistics may be among its
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    Philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. [1] Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of meaning, intentionality, reference, the constitution of sentences, concepts, learning, and thought.. Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell were pivotal figures in analytic philosophy's "linguistic turn".
  6. academic.oup.com

    The philosophy of linguistics is an expansive domain of inquiry. It encompasses issues in applied philosophy of science, such as the relationship between linguistic data and theory (e.g., ought we pursue "discovery procedures"?); what parsimony and explanation amount to in linguistic theorizing; the nature and plausibility of unobservable theoretical posits (whether these be particular ...
  7. shop.elsevier.com

    Philosophy of Linguistics investigates the foundational concepts and methods of linguistics, the scientific study of human language. This groundbreaking collection, the most thorough treatment of the philosophy of linguistics ever published, brings together philosophers, scientists and historians to map out both the foundational assumptions set during the second half of the last century and ...
  8. Linguistics and Philosophy; Topics Humanities. Linguistics. Philosophy. Philosophy of Language; Learning Resource Types notes Lecture Notes. An illustration of the introductory concepts of use and mention. (Image courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare, original photo courtesy of Terry Goss.)
  9. sciencedirect.com

    Philosophy of Linguistics investigates the foundational concepts and methods of linguistics, the scientific study of human language. This groundbreaking collection, the most thorough treatment of the philosophy of linguistics ever published, brings together philosophers, scientists and historians to map out both the foundational assumptions set during the second half of the last century and ...
  10. en.wikipedia.org

    Linguistic philosophy is the view that many or all philosophical problems can be solved (or dissolved) by paying closer attention to language, either by reforming language or by better understanding our everyday language. [1] The former position is that of ideal language philosophy, one prominent example being logical atomism.The latter is the view defended in ordinary language philosophy.
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