19087 | The meaning or purport of a symbol is all the rational conduct it would lead to [Peirce] |
6112 | Meaning takes many different forms, depending on different logical types [Russell] |
23450 | Wittgenstein rejected his earlier view that the form of language is the form of the world [Wittgenstein, by Morris,M] |
13978 | Husserl and Meinong wanted objective Meanings and Propositions, as subject-matter for Logic [Ryle] |
8898 | Inculcations of meanings of words rests ultimately on sensory evidence [Quine] |
1626 | It is troublesome nonsense to split statements into a linguistic and a factual component [Quine] |
6282 | Theory of meaning presupposes theory of understanding and reference [Putnam] |
2346 | Meaning and translation (which are needed to define truth) both presuppose the notion of reference [Putnam] |
15667 | To understand a statement is to know what would make it acceptable [Habermas] |
21932 | 'Différance' is the interwoven history of each sign [Derrida, by Glendinning] |
21886 | Meanings depend on differences and contrasts [Derrida] |
21930 | For Aristotle all proper nouns must have a single sense, which is the purpose of language [Derrida] |
21884 | Capacity for repetitions is the hallmark of language [Derrida] |
21935 | The sign is only conceivable as a movement between elusive presences [Derrida] |
21933 | Writing functions even if the sender or the receiver are absent [Derrida, by Glendinning] |
21894 | Madness and instability ('the demonic hyperbole') lurks in all language [Derrida] |
2565 | Nature has no preferred way of being represented [Rorty] |
6387 | A minimum requirement for a theory of meaning is that it include an account of truth [Davidson] |
3451 | Meaning is derived intentionality [Searle] |
3078 | Speech acts, communication, representation and truth form a single theory [Harman] |
13948 | For any statement, there is no one meaning which any sentence asserting it must have [Cartwright,R] |
13950 | People don't assert the meaning of the words they utter [Cartwright,R] |
2517 | Structuralists see meaning behaviouristically, and Chomsky says nothing about it [Katz] |
16406 | If you don't know what you say you can't mean it; what people say usually fits what they mean [Stalnaker] |
2439 | Semantic externalism says the concept 'elm' needs no further beliefs or inferences [Fodor] |
2457 | If meaning is information, that establishes the causal link between the state of the world and our beliefs [Fodor] |
7324 | Explain meaning by propositional attitudes, or vice versa, or together? [Miller,A] |
19217 | I don't accept that if a proposition is directly about an entity, it has a relation to the entity [Merricks] |
21654 | The "Fido"-Fido theory of meaning says every expression in a language has a referent [Hofweber] |
14717 | Internalist meaning is about understanding; externalist meaning is about embedding in a situation [Schroeter] |