...Predicates and open-sentences express properties and relations, and sentences express propositions. But which type of properties, relations, and propositions (PRPs) are these, which type of PRP is relevant to the theory of meaning? Do they conform to the first traditional conception or the second...

...This chapter addresses the questions: what forces a truth-conditional theory of meaning or of content to be circular? And what would a non-circular theory be like? It argues that a non-circular theory of meaning would require a knowledge of the meaning of a sentence or word to include knowledge...

... of propositional meaning: the picture theory of meaning, and the truth‐functional account of meaning. A proposition could be considered elementary if it contained only one elementary proposition or one elementary picture. In this approach, if p is an elementary proposition, then so...

... of knowing and the realist theory of meaning. ‘Modes of thought’ (viṣayatāvacchedaka) is introduced into the theory of meaning, and it raises many questions, about their nature and their role. It argues that the modes satisfy one main condition for being Fregean senses: as adverbial...

...This chapter addresses the problems for the philosopher of language within the theory of meaning. Theoretical terms are introduced into Vaiśeṣika proto-physics as names for objects whose existence is derived from known facts. It is noted that Gadādhara insists that tautologies have no literal...

... anticipated by the ancient grammarian Vyāḍi, who held that the function of a word used in a phrase or sentence is to distinguish something from other things. See K. Kunjunni Raja , Indian Theories of Meaning (Madras: Adyar Library and Research Centre, 1963), 192–193 ; Matilal...

...The phrase ‘theory of meaning’ can mean a number of things in the history of analytic philosophy of language. It may denote an attempt to ‘analyze, elucidate, or determine the empirical content of, the concept of meaning in general’. This we can call an informal theory of meaning. Alternatively...

... by the physical. Davidson made contributions of lasting importance to a wide range of topics—from general theory of meaning and content over formal semantics, the theories of truth, explanation, and action, to metaphysics and epistemology. His writings almost entirely consist of short, elegant, and often witty...

...The chapter presents the debate surrounding the object of study of the theory of meaning, focusing on the differences, as well as points of agreement, between orientations within the camps of the ‘maximalists’, the ‘fixers’, and the ‘minimalists’, or ‘radical’ contextualism, indexicalism...

...-as-Practice Practice Theory Davidson’s Theory of Meaning This chapter lays the foundations for the new approach on organizational design proposed in this book, but before delving into the detail it will be useful for the reader to know about some of our starting assumptions. We start off...

... performance. Husserl’s theory of meaning already reveals this possibility. A phenomenological analysis reveals that a non-linguistic system of representation is in fact still functioning in our own consciousness. We simultaneously use different means of representation, the most prominent of which are language...

...This chapter examines the views of philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Derrida on the theory of meaning. Both philosophers reject accounts of meaning based on semantic correlates but they accept the consequent indeterminacy of sense and the relationship between consciousness and meaning...

... of an utterance sense and reference theories of meaning Husserl E psychologism Davidson D Tarski A truth as correspondence truth concept of truth‐definition equivalence principle meaning as use Ramsey F P redundancy minimalist theory of truth communication Grice manifestation challenge...

...There is much unclarity regarding what Wittgenstein meant by the ‘harmony between language and reality’ and concerning his treatment of the problems of intentionality. Wittgenstein's picture theory of meaning was an account of the intentionality of thought and language. The paradox was to reconcile...

...The realist theory of meaning states that the meaning of an expression is the external object for which it stands. Some form of the realist theory has a good claim to be our pre-theoretical, or ‘folk’ semantics, to capture an intuitive view about meaning. Its roots lie in a standard basic idea...

..., for each domain, the task of explaining how a metaphysics-involving view can be correct from explaining that it is correct. Consequences for current theories of meaning follow from the metaphysics-involving view. meaning sense concepts constitutive domain metaphysics involving thesis Primary Thesis...

...The author of this book defends a conception of language as essentially a means for the reception of knowledge through testimony. He argues that the possibility of testimony constrains the form of a theory of meaning. In particular, the semantic power of a word, its ability...

... and agency Natural religion Empiricism Language Happiness Immortality Morality Motives and motivation strife Natural propensities natural beliefs human nature foundation in reason origin in nature sceptic design argument analogy theory of meaning What those [religious-belief-producing...

... another). Particular attention is paid to Kripke’s attack on reductive dispositionalist theories of meaning and to his objections to non-reductionist views which regard facts about meaning as primitive and sui generis. The chapter also considers “sceptical solutions”, according to which the integrity...

...Delineates Wittgenstein's picture theory of meaning, the view that explanation of how sentences acquire and keep their sense must appeal to the concept of pictorial representation. Pears introduces a vital element of Wittgenstein's earlier philosophy, namely the so‐called ‘saying–showing...