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  1. cambridge.org

    1 Philosophy of Language: Definitions, Disciplines, and Approaches; Part I The Past, Present, and Future of Philosophy of Language; Part II Some Foundational Issues; Part III From Truth to Vagueness; 11 Truth and Theories of Truth; 12 Reference and Theories of Reference; 13 Names in Philosophy; 14 Indexicals and Contextual Involvement; 15 ...
  2. Society Philosophy Philosophy of Language Meaning Theories of Reference . 4. This category is devoted to what Quine would call theories of reference (see his `On what there is'), ie. theories that do not contain an explicit theory of sense. In particular of interest are Kripke's New Theory of Reference, possible worlds semantics, knowledge and ...
  3. plato.stanford.edu

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    https://plato.stanford.edu › entries › meaning

    1. Two Kinds of Theory of Meaning. In "General Semantics", David Lewis wrote. I distinguish two topics: first, the description of possible languages or grammars as abstract semantic systems whereby symbols are associated with aspects of the world; and, second, the description of the psychological and sociological facts whereby a particular one of these abstract semantic systems is the one ...
  4. esoftskills.com

    Sep 1, 2024Key Takeaways. The philosophy of language investigates the intricate connections between language, thought, and reality.; Theories of meaning address how words denote objects or ideas in our language system.; Historical figures like Frege and Russell greatly influenced linguistic philosophy.; Semantic theories aim to clarify meanings within a symbol system, whereas metasemantic theories ...
  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. assets.cambridge.org

    approaches to meaning, radical interpretation, indeterminacy of translation, speech acts, intentional theories of meaning, and scepticism about meaning. The book will be invaluable to students and to all readers who are interested in the nature of linguistic meaning. michael morrisis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex.
  7. oxfordbibliographies.com

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. A good introduction to the philosophy of language. Includes chapters on Frege's sense and reference, Kripke's account of the causal theory of reference, and Russell's theory of definite descriptions, as well as a chapter on kind terms.
  8. philosophy.org.za

    properties meanings ; the task then is to discover what these meaning are and what makes it the case for something to have one (or more than one). This is the task of semantics or the theory of meaning. A related task, if we were also interested in Human Psychology, would be to ask in what ways
  9. academic.oup.com

    In the philosophy of language, it has been customary to think of reference as a two-place relation, with some object as the second term and a word or phrase as the first. Keywords: acts of referring , words , concepts , philosophy of language , two-place relation , people and things
  10. academic.oup.com

    Pragmatics, or the theory of language use, 2 is often regarded as the waste-bin for semantics: whatever does not belong to semantics goes into pragmatics. Having collaborated on an entire book on the subject (Bach and Harnish 1979), I view it in more positive terms, as the theory of communication (speaker meaning) and speech acts. As for ...
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