2337 | For Aristotle meaning and reference are linked to concepts [Aristotle, by Putnam] |
7716 | Words were devised as signs for inner ideas, and their basic meaning is those ideas [Locke] |
7308 | Words stand for the ideas in the mind of him that uses them [Locke] |
6716 | Language is presumably for communication, and names stand for ideas [Berkeley] |
9167 | Frege felt that meanings must be public, so they are abstractions rather than mental entities [Frege, by Putnam] |
9583 | Psychological logicians are concerned with sense of words, but mathematicians study the reference [Frege] |
9584 | Identity baffles psychologists, since A and B must be presented differently to identify them [Frege] |
23481 | Propositions assemble a world experimentally, like the model of a road accident [Wittgenstein] |
18283 | Language pictures the essence of the world [Wittgenstein] |
23482 | The 'form' of the picture is its possible combinations [Wittgenstein] |
8212 | Everything that is experienced in consciousness is meaning [Derrida] |
19149 | If we reject corresponding 'facts', we should also give up the linked idea of 'representations' [Davidson] |
3450 | Philosophy of language is a branch of philosophy of mind [Searle] |
7013 | The Picture Theory claims we can read reality from our ways of speaking about it [Heil] |
7722 | If meaning is mental pictures, explain "the cat (or dog!) is NOT on the mat" [Lowe] |