Titlebook: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language; Bernard Harrison Book 1979 Bernard Harrison 1979 encyclopedia of philosophy.epistemology.fr

CRUMB

Interlude: Stalemate and Revision internal conflicts — between Grice and Searle, for example, or between Montague’s possible-world semantics for natural languages and a Quinean semantics which excludes quantification into modal contexts — which exhibit the same disquieting characteristic of intractable and irresoluble mutual opposition as the larger debate.

Hamper

Meaning and Useon, or Searle’s in terms of the concept of a speech act; and, secondly, because it suggests that Wittgenstein’s relationship to Frege in his later work was, like Grice’s or Searle’s, one of root-and-branch rejection.

ROOF

The Autonomy of the Linguistic Signthe roof: I ask myself: arc they merely marks made at random by a stonemason testing a chisel, or do they collectively make up an utterance in a language whose script this is? To ask this is to ask a question about history. But it is a question which implicitly suggests a prior question of a differe

Bravura

寬宏大量

讓步

Logic and Ordinary Languagermal semantics’. There is a sense in which formal semantics can be seen as representing a continuation of the thought of the Vienna Circle positivists. But this relationship is generally obscured because, naturally enough, the approach to the problem of meaning through the construction of formal, se

Ossification

Meaning, Translation and Ontologyominally, as the title suggests, an attack on empiricism. The ‘two dogmas’ which the paper attacks are, first, reductionism: ‘the belief that each meaningful statement is equivalent to some logical construction upon terms which refer to immediate experience’;2 and, secondly the belief that there is

緯線

Truth and Interpretationcess in which complex denoting expressions are replaced successively by definite descriptions, analysed according to the Theory of Descriptions, until the process terminates in sentences containing only logically proper names and truth-functional operators. Quine’s holism, ontological relativism and

全等

Naming, Necessity and Natural Kindsre directly acquainted in experience with .physical objects which have their own existence independently of being perceived by us, and is known as realism or, to distinguish it from realism about universals, epistemological realism.

基因組

Speech Actsn terms of the beliefs and intentions of speakers and hearers in specific, concrete contexts of communication. I am not so sure about this. I think the options need to be, and can be, set up rather differently. The outlines of the revision I have in mind are perhaps already darkly visible, and will,