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Single Idea 2517
[filed under theme 19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Full Idea
In linguistics there are two schools of thought: Bloomfieldian structuralism (favoured by Quine) conceives of sentences acoustically and meanings behaviouristically; and Chomskian generative grammar (which is silent about semantics).
Gist of Idea
Structuralists see meaning behaviouristically, and Chomsky says nothing about it
Source
Jerrold J. Katz (Realistic Rationalism [2000], Int.xxiv)
Book Ref
Katz,Jerrold J.: 'Realistic Rationalism' [MIT 2000], p.-11
A Reaction
They both appear to be wrong, so there is (or was) something rotten in the state of linguistics. Are the only options for meaning either behaviourist or eliminativist?
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30 ideas
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[how one thing can represent another thing]:
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19087
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The meaning or purport of a symbol is all the rational conduct it would lead to
[Peirce]
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6112
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Meaning takes many different forms, depending on different logical types
[Russell]
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23450
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Wittgenstein rejected his earlier view that the form of language is the form of the world
[Wittgenstein, by Morris,M]
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13978
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Husserl and Meinong wanted objective Meanings and Propositions, as subject-matter for Logic
[Ryle]
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8898
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Inculcations of meanings of words rests ultimately on sensory evidence
[Quine]
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1626
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It is troublesome nonsense to split statements into a linguistic and a factual component
[Quine]
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6282
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Theory of meaning presupposes theory of understanding and reference
[Putnam]
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2346
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Meaning and translation (which are needed to define truth) both presuppose the notion of reference
[Putnam]
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15667
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To understand a statement is to know what would make it acceptable
[Habermas]
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21932
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'Différance' is the interwoven history of each sign
[Derrida, by Glendinning]
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21886
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Meanings depend on differences and contrasts
[Derrida]
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21930
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For Aristotle all proper nouns must have a single sense, which is the purpose of language
[Derrida]
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21884
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Capacity for repetitions is the hallmark of language
[Derrida]
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21935
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The sign is only conceivable as a movement between elusive presences
[Derrida]
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21933
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Writing functions even if the sender or the receiver are absent
[Derrida, by Glendinning]
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21894
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Madness and instability ('the demonic hyperbole') lurks in all language
[Derrida]
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2565
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Nature has no preferred way of being represented
[Rorty]
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6387
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A minimum requirement for a theory of meaning is that it include an account of truth
[Davidson]
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3451
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Meaning is derived intentionality
[Searle]
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3078
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Speech acts, communication, representation and truth form a single theory
[Harman]
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13948
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For any statement, there is no one meaning which any sentence asserting it must have
[Cartwright,R]
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13950
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People don't assert the meaning of the words they utter
[Cartwright,R]
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2517
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Structuralists see meaning behaviouristically, and Chomsky says nothing about it
[Katz]
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16406
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If you don't know what you say you can't mean it; what people say usually fits what they mean
[Stalnaker]
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2439
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Semantic externalism says the concept 'elm' needs no further beliefs or inferences
[Fodor]
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2457
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If meaning is information, that establishes the causal link between the state of the world and our beliefs
[Fodor]
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7324
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Explain meaning by propositional attitudes, or vice versa, or together?
[Miller,A]
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19217
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I don't accept that if a proposition is directly about an entity, it has a relation to the entity
[Merricks]
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21654
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The "Fido"-Fido theory of meaning says every expression in a language has a referent
[Hofweber]
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14717
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Internalist meaning is about understanding; externalist meaning is about embedding in a situation
[Schroeter]
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