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Single Idea 3450
[filed under theme 19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental
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Full Idea
On my view, the philosophy of language is a branch of the philosophy of mind.
Gist of Idea
Philosophy of language is a branch of philosophy of mind
Source
John Searle (The Rediscovery of the Mind [1992], Intro)
Book Ref
Searle,John R.: 'The Rediscovery of the Mind' [MIT 1999], p.-6
A Reaction
Inclined to agree with this. Intentionality and meaning are virtually the same thing. The role of language in thought has been grossly overrated in modern philosophy.
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[meanings are essentially mental events]:
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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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