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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"theories of meaning"”.
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Unarticulated Constituents and Theories of Meaning
… constituents.’ These are entities that are part of the propositional content of a speech act, but are not represented by any part of the sentence uttered or of the thought that is being expressed - that is, they are fully unarticulated. After offering a novel definition of this phenomenon, I …
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Labels and Tags: A New Look at Naming
What meaning does a name have in a sentence? How do we escape the inevitable difficulties that arise in delineating an individual's meaning through one's speech? The need arises for a distinction between proper names on the basis of the kinds of objects to which they refer. This distinction can …
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Reference and Grammar: Reasserting Wittgenstein's Picture
The aim of this essay is to present a novel line of argument in support of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s view of philosophy of language. It consists in three parts. First, it explores a family of referential theories of meaning belonging to the tradition of Millian semantics – a family dubbed ‘Millian …
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Understanding Dead Languages
… for which the evidence is limited by the paucity of surviving texts and in which no new linguistic uses can be generated. Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that the meaning of language is simply its use by a language community. On this view a dead language is coextensive with the existing corpus, with …
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Meaning Apprehension in the Cerebral Hemispheres
… examined hemispheric differences in the breadth of semantic activation using ambiguous words that possess multiple incompatible meanings, and failed to show significant hemispheric differences in activating and maintaining multiple incompatible meanings. In experiments three and four, associated …
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THE PERSISTENCE OF INDETERMINACY: CONTEMPORARY THEORIES AND KRIPKENSTEIN'S CHALLENGE TO REPRESENTATIONAL CONTENT
This thesis is concerned with the foundations of representational content. There is a familiar feature of words, sentences, beliefs, and perceptions: they are about, or mean, or represent something. The sentence “cats are cute” is about cats being cute, and my belief that cats are cute is also …
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Recombinant Poetics: Emergent Meaning as Examined and Explored Within a Specific Generative Virtual Environment
This research derives from a survey of primary and secondary literature and my practice as a professional artist using electronic information delivery systems. The research has informed the creation of an interactive art work, authored so that emergent meaning can be examined and explored within a …
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Agents in Crisis: Theoretical Studies on Agency, Meaning and Time
The concept of crisis has become a staple in describing the current state of the social world. In the last decades, sociological theorists have retrieved the notion in connection with its cognate idea of critique. This retrieval comes hand in hand with recognising a dual character of crisis …
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Clusters' last stand: Toward a theory of the process of meaning-making in science
The nature of the process of meaning-making in science has been one of the central problems in the philosophy of science of the 20th century. Yet, in spite of strenuous efforts by many able philosophers and historians of science over the past three decades or so, our understanding of this process …
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Kenneth Burke's relation to modern thought and literature
… Kenneth Burke locates him in selected contexts of modern thought and New Criticism designed to reveal his distinctive contribution as a theorist of language and literature.</p> <p>Most of the substantial studies of Burke that we have, like William Rueckert’s excellent book, <em>Kenneth Burke and …