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Single Idea 18283
[filed under theme 19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental
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Full Idea
The essence of language is a picture of the essence of the world.
Gist of Idea
Language pictures the essence of the world
Source
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosophical Remarks [1930], p.85), quoted by J. Alberto Coffa - The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap 17
Book Ref
Coffa,J.Alberto: 'The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap' [CUP 1993], p.326
A Reaction
Hence for a long time the study of language seemed to be the way to do metaphysics. Now they study mathematical logic, with the same hope.
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[meanings are essentially mental events]:
2337
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For Aristotle meaning and reference are linked to concepts
[Aristotle, by Putnam]
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7716
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Words were devised as signs for inner ideas, and their basic meaning is those ideas
[Locke]
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7308
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Words stand for the ideas in the mind of him that uses them
[Locke]
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6716
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Language is presumably for communication, and names stand for ideas
[Berkeley]
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9167
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Frege felt that meanings must be public, so they are abstractions rather than mental entities
[Frege, by Putnam]
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9583
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Psychological logicians are concerned with sense of words, but mathematicians study the reference
[Frege]
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9584
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Identity baffles psychologists, since A and B must be presented differently to identify them
[Frege]
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23481
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Propositions assemble a world experimentally, like the model of a road accident
[Wittgenstein]
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18283
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Language pictures the essence of the world
[Wittgenstein]
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23482
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The 'form' of the picture is its possible combinations
[Wittgenstein]
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8212
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Everything that is experienced in consciousness is meaning
[Derrida]
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19149
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If we reject corresponding 'facts', we should also give up the linked idea of 'representations'
[Davidson]
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3450
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Philosophy of language is a branch of philosophy of mind
[Searle]
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7013
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The Picture Theory claims we can read reality from our ways of speaking about it
[Heil]
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7722
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If meaning is mental pictures, explain "the cat (or dog!) is NOT on the mat"
[Lowe]
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