language

1. Language, philosophy of

accents (Rousseau, J.-J.)

1. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: 2 Works leading up to The Social Contract

acquisition

innate predispositions

1. Cognitive development

African Francophone philosophy

1. African philosophy, Francophone: 5 Ethnophilosophy

agreement (Verständigung)

1. Communicative rationality

analytical

sophismata

1. Oxford Calculators: 2 Calculations and disputations on sophismata
2. Oxford Calculators: 5 De incipit et desinit; maxima and minima

ancient philosophy of

1. Language, ancient philosophy of

animal

1. Animal language and thought

anthropodicy (Florenskii, P.A.)

1. Florenskii, Pavel Aleksandrovich: 3 Anthropodicy: aesthetics and philosophy of language

anthropology (Monboddo)

1. Monboddo, Lord (James Burnett)

Aristotle

1. Language, ancient philosophy of

Aristotle-Plato agreement (Porphyry)

1. Porphyry: 2 Language and metaphysics

artist’s intention

1. Artist’s intention: 1 Some arguments against the relevance of intention
2. Artist’s intention: 4 Meaning and use

author relationship (Barthes, R.)

1. Barthes, Roland

automatized

Russian literary formalism

1. Russian literary Formalism: 1 Practical versus poetic language
2. Russian literary Formalism: 2 Literariness

behavioural (moralis)

1. Language, medieval theories of: 8 Multiple signification: systematic use of metaphors (Gilbert and the Porretans)

behaviourism

Bloomfield, L.

1. Structuralism in linguistics: 1 The concept of structural linguistics

Quine, W.V.

1. Quine, Willard Van Orman: 9 Indeterminacy of translation

biblical rhetoric

Jewish philosophy (Messer Leon)

1. Messer Leon, Judah: 3 Rhetoric

Buddhist nominalism

1. Nominalism, Buddhist doctrine of

canonical notation (Quine, W.V.)

1. Quine, Willard Van Orman: 5 Canonical notation and ontological commitment

categorical sentences (William of Champeaux)

1. William of Champeaux

child development (Piaget, J.)

1. Piaget, Jean: 1 The stages of development
2. Piaget, Jean: 4 After Piaget

Chinese philosophy

1. Logic in China

Confucius

1. Logic in China: 1 Confucius: rectifying names
2. Logic in China: 10 Xunzi: Confucian conventionalism

Daoism

1. Daoist philosophy: 5 Person and world: the wu-forms (cont.)

effect of Chinese language on

1. Chinese philosophy: 1 Chinese thinking as ars contextualis
2. Chinese philosophy: 6 The ‘Hundred Schools’

Gongsun Long

1. Logic in China: 7 Gongsun Long: one name, one thing

Hui Shi

1. Logic in China: 8 Hui Shi: relativism and monism

Mohism

1. Logic in China: 3 Rediscovery of later Mohist theory
2. Mohist philosophy: 5 Later Mohist philosophy

Mozi

1. Logic in China: 2 Mozi: language utilitarianism

Sengzhao

1. Sengzhao
2. Sengzhao

closed/connected distinction (Ajdukiewicz, K.)

1. Ajdukiewicz, Kazimierz: 2 Radical conventionalism

compositional meaning theory (Davidson, D.)

1. Davidson, Donald: 4 Theory of meaning

compositionality

1. Compositionality

conception (Reid, T.)

1. Reid, Thomas: 5 Language and conception

conceptual role semantics

1. Semantics, conceptual role: 1 Motivations for CRS

consensus (Ibn Rushd)

1. Ibn Rushd, Abu’l Walid Muhammad: 6 Philosophy of language

consumer culture (Baudrillard, J.)

1. Baudrillard, Jean
2. Baudrillard, Jean
3. Baudrillard, Jean
4. Baudrillard, Jean

context (Tominaga Nakamoto)

1. Tominaga Nakamoto

contingent images (Mauthner, F.)

1. Mauthner, Fritz: 1 Language in thought and communication

conventionality of

1. Language, conventionality of

Ajdukiewicz, K.

1. Ajdukiewicz, Kazimierz: 2 Radical conventionalism

Aristotle

1. Language, ancient philosophy of: 3 Aristotle
2. Language, ancient philosophy of: 3 Aristotle

Carnap, R.

1. Carnap, Rudolf

Chinese philosophy

1. Logic in China
2. Logic in China: 4 Later Mohists: names and distinctions

Democritus

1. Language, ancient philosophy of: 1 Pre-Platonic figures

Plato

1. Language, ancient philosophy of: 2 Plato

conversational implicature (Grice, H.P.)

1. Grice, Herbert Paul
2. Grice, Herbert Paul: 2 Language and meaning

correspondence theory of truth

1. Truth, correspondence theory of: 1 Two kinds of correspondence theory
2. Truth, correspondence theory of: 3 Objections to correspondence theories

criteria

1. Criteria

critiques of

Bacon, F.

1. Bacon, Francis: 5 The idols of the mind

Locke, J.

1. Locke, John: 5 Substances, mixed modes and the improvement of language

Mauthner, F.

1. Mauthner, Fritz: 2 Philosophy as critique of language

cultural dimension (Humboldt, W. von)

1. Humboldt, Wilhelm von

dance

1. Dance, aesthetics of: 7 Verbal and nonverbal communication

deconstruction

1. Deconstruction: 1 Is there a logic of deconstruction?

deflationary theories of truth

1. Truth, deflationary theories of

descriptive psychology (Twardowski, K.)

1. Twardowski, Kazimierz: 3 The contentߝobject distinction
2. Twardowski, Kazimierz: 4 Other contributions to philosophy

dialects

linguistic discrimination

1. Linguistic discrimination: 6 Languages and dialects

dialogic (Bakhtin, M.M.)

1. Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich: 2 Language as dialogic

discrimination

1. Linguistic discrimination

doubt

1. Doubt: 3 Philosophical doubt (cont.)

essential/crude distinction (Blanchot, M.)

1. Blanchot, Maurice

eternality of

Mīmāsā

1. Mimamsa
2. Mimamsa: 3 Language and scripture

universals

1. Universals, Indian theories of
2. Universals, Indian theories of: 1 Universals as the meanings of words

Eurasianism

1. Eurasian Movement: 1 Eurasianism
2. Eurasian Movement: 1 Eurasianism

expressivist theories of (Taylor, C.)

1. Taylor, Charles: 3 Language

fallibility of (Dignāga)

1. Dignaga: 2 Theory of language

family resemblences (Wittgenstein, L.)

1. Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann: 9 Dismantling the Tractatus picture

fine distinctions in (Prodicus)

1. Prodicus

formal

logical positivism

1. Logical positivism: 5 Emigration, influence, aftermath

second-order logic

1. Second-order logic, philosophical issues in

syntactic engines

computational theories of mind

1. Mind, computational theories of: 3 Syntactic engines

Frege, G.

1. Frege, Gottlob
2. Frege, Gottlob: 1 Life and work
3. Frege, Gottlob: 5 Objectivity and privacy
4. Frege, Gottlob: 6 Contributions to logic

function (Shpet, G.G.)

1. Shpet, Gustav Gustavovich: 4 Hermeneutics, philosophy of language and poetics

gender

1. Language and gender

heteroglossia (Bakhtin, M.)

1. Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich: 3 Heteroglossia

hierarchical structure

logic of truth

1. Semantic paradoxes and theories of truth: 3 Kripke’s theory of truth
2. Tarski’s definition of truth: 2 The liar paradox

theory of types

1. Theory of types: 1 Ramified type theory
2. Theory of types: 3 The simple v. the ramified theory of types

Hindu philosophy

1. Hindu philosophy: 4 Philosophy of language

Hobbes, T.

1. Language, early modern philosophy of: 2 Empiricism: Hobbes

hybridity

postcolonialism

1. Postcolonialism: 1 Seminal works

idealism (Burthogge, R.)

1. Burthogge, Richard: 2 Theory of knowledge

ideas

Locke, J.

1. Locke, John: 4 Five sorts of idea

Maine de Biran, P.-F.

1. Maine de Biran, Pierre-François: 3 The mature position

implicit meanings

African Anglophone philosophy

1. African philosophy, Anglophone: 5 Typology of current trends

Indian theories of

1. Language, Indian theories of

Gadādhara

1. Gadadhara: 2 Philosophy of language

linguistic units

1. Language, Indian theories of
2. Language, Indian theories of: 2 The search for minimal meaningful units

Patañjali

1. Patañjali: 2 The linguistic units that have meaning

sphoa theory

1. Language, Indian theories of
2. Language, Indian theories of: 4 Early sphota theory

inference

Mill, J.S.

1. Mill, John Stuart: 2 Language and logic

perception distinction

Yogācāra Buddhism

1. Buddhism, Yogacara school of: 3 The role of epistemology

innateness of

1. Gestalt psychology
2. Knowledge, tacit

Chomsky, N.

1. Chomsky, Noam
2. Chomsky, Noam: 1 The aims and principles of linguistic theory
3. Gestalt psychology
4. Gestalt psychology: 1 Ehrenfels v. Mach

empiricist response

1. Nativism: 2 Linguistic nativism

learning theory

1. Learning: 4 Learning and computation

nativism

1. Nativism
2. Nativism: 2 Linguistic nativism
3. Nativism

Skinner, B.F.

1. Skinner, Burrhus Frederick
2. Skinner, Burrhus Frederick

unconscious mental states

1. Unconscious mental states
2. Unconscious mental states: 4 Chomsky
3. Unconscious mental states

conventions contrasted

1. Language, conventionality of: 3 Language without conventions

poverty of the stimulus

1. Gestalt psychology: 2 The Austro-Italian production theory

intention

1. Communication and intention

intentionality

Reinach, A.

1. Reinach, Adolf : 2 Promises and other acts

Searle, J.

1. Searle, John

interpretation

context

1. Meaning and truth: 3 Providing correct meaning-specifications

Indian theories of

1. Interpretation, Indian theories of

introspection

1. Introspection, epistemology of: 2 Transparency and the contemporary scientific view of the mind

Japanese

Buddhism

1. Buddhist philosophy, Japanese
2. Buddhist philosophy, Japanese

Kyoto School

1. Kyoto School: 1 Survey

knowledge of (Chomsky, N.)

1. Chomsky, Noam: 2 Knowledge of language

knowledge relationship (Condillac, É.B. de)

1. Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de
2. Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de: 3 Knowledge and nature as systems

langue-parole distinction (Saussure, F. de)

1. Saussure, Ferdinand de: 1 The primary object of linguistic study

learning

computer science

1. Learning: 4 Learning and computation

lekton

Stoicism

1. Stoicism: 8 The lekton

Locke, J.

1. Language, early modern philosophy of

logic and

1. Logic, philosophy of

Aristotle

1. Aristotle: 4 Thought and language

artificial intelligence

common-sense reasoning

1. Common-sense reasoning, theories of

Islamic philosophy

1. Ibn Sina, Abu ‘Ali al-Husayn: 2 Reason and reality
2. Logic in Islamic philosophy
3. Logic in Islamic philosophy: 2 Logic, language and grammar
4. Meaning in Islamic philosophy: 2 Language versus logic

logical analysis of

1. Abstract objects

analytic philosophy

1. Analytical philosophy
2. Analytical philosophy: 3 Linguistic analysis

logical atomism (Wittgenstein, L.)

1. Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann

Logos (Coleridge, S.T.)

1. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: 1 Metaphysics

Marxist theory of

1. Marxist philosophy, Russian and Soviet: 3 Controversies in the 1920s

meaning

Indian theories of

1. Meaning, Indian theories of

potentiality

Indian theories of

1. Potentiality, Indian theories of: 4 The potential of a sound to convey a meaning

medieval theories of

1. Language, medieval theories of
2. Medieval philosophy

Abelard, P.

1. Abelard, Peter
2. Abelard, Peter: 4 Logic

Augustine

1. Augustine
2. Augustine: 3 Philosophy of language

Bacon, R.

1. Bacon, Roger: 4 Linguistic work

Boethius of Dacia

1. Boethius of Dacia: 3 Grammar

Brinkley, R.

1. Brinkley, Richard

Brito, R.

1. Brito, Radulphus

Encyclopedists

1. Encyclopedists, medieval: 4 Martianus Capella

Heytesbury, W.

1. Heytesbury, William

James of Viterbo

1. James of Viterbo

Kilwardby, R.

1. Kilwardby, Robert: 2 Grammar and logic

Marsilius of Inghen

1. Marsilius of Inghen: 1 Logic

Paul of Venice

1. Paul of Venice

Peter of Auvergne

1. Peter of Auvergne

Peter of Spain

1. Peter of Spain

William of Ockham

1. William of Ockham: 6 Logic and philosophy of language: levels of discourse, connotation, intentions

William of Sherwood

1. William of Sherwood
2. William of Sherwood

Wodeham, A.

1. Wodeham, Adam: 3 Semantics

Wyclif, J.

1. Wyclif, John: 2 Contribution to logic

mental

Ailly, P. d’

1. Ailly, Pierre d’

speech in the mind (verbum mentis)

1. Language, medieval theories of: 1 Sources

William of Ockham

1. Language, medieval theories of: 3 Words, concepts and things: nominalism

metalanguages (Carnap, R.)

1. Carnap, Rudolf: 3 Syntax

modern philosophy of

early

1. Language, early modern philosophy of

Moscow-Tartu school

1. Moscow-Tartu School
2. Moscow-Tartu School: 2 Doctrine: general topics and the work of Uspenskii and Lotman

myth relationship

creation (Rosenzweig, F.)

1. Rosenzweig, Franz: 3 The New Thinking

names

Chinese theories of

1. Logic in China
2. Logic in China
3. Logic in China: 1 Confucius: rectifying names
4. Logic in China: 2 Mozi: language utilitarianism
5. Logic in China: 4 Later Mohists: names and distinctions

Wittgenstein, L.

1. Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann: 9 Dismantling the Tractatus picture

nationalism

Japanese philosophy

1. Japanese philosophy: 7 Native studies: religio-aesthetic foundation of the Shinto state

natural

identity

1. Identity: 1 Exposition of a popular view

Leibniz, G.W.

1. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm: 10 Logic and language

logical form

1. Logical form

parsing of

connectionist networks

1. Connectionism: 3 Networks and multiple soft constraint satisfaction

predicate calculus

1. Predicate calculus

quantifiers

1. Quantifiers, generalized: 3 Quantifiers and natural language
2. Quantifiers, substitutional and objectual: 2 Interpreting natural language quantifiers

semantics

1. Semantics: 1 Historical sources and goals
2. Semantics: 2 Contemporary semantical traditions

syntax

1. Syntax

Tarski’s definition of truth

1. Tarski’s definition of truth: 4 Philosophical influence

naturalism

Barthes, R. rejection of

1. Barthes, Roland
2. Barthes, Roland: 1 Early writings

Plato

1. Cratylus

Neoplatonism (Simplicius)

1. Simplicius: 4 Logic and mathematics

noematic meaning (Husserl, E.)

1. Husserl, Edmund
2. Husserl, Edmund: 3 Noema

nominalism

Sellars, W.S.

1. Sellars, Wilfrid Stalker: 2 Ontological perspectives
2. Sellars, Wilfrid Stalker: 3 Epistemological perspectives

universals (Stewart, D.)

1. Stewart, Dugald: 4 Stewart’s deviations from this tradition

numbers (Frege, G.)

1. Frege, Gottlob: 8 Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik: the context principle

observational

incommensurability (Feyerabend, P.K.)

1. Feyerabend, Paul Karl

ontology of

1. Abstract objects

origin of

Bible

1. Language, early modern philosophy of: 1 The biblical and Lucretian accounts

Condillac, É.B. de

1. Language, early modern philosophy of: 6 The origin of language: Condillac and Rousseau

Hamann, J.G.

1. Hamann, Johann Georg: 2 Philosophy of language

Herder, J.G.

1. Herder, Johann Gottfried: 2 Theory of language

Locke, J.

1. Language, early modern philosophy of: 1 The biblical and Lucretian accounts

Rousseau, J.-J.

1. Language, early modern philosophy of: 6 The origin of language: Condillac and Rousseau

ortholanguage (Lorenzen, P.)

1. Lorenzen, Paul: 2 Counting and other operations

paternal laws (Irigaray, L.)

1. Irigaray, Luce: 2 ‘Luce’ and ‘Irigaray’

perception

Merleau-Ponty, M.

1. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice : 4 Consciousness and freedom

Vātsyāyana

1. Vatsyayana

philosophic

Greek origins

1. Ancient philosophy

phonology

Prague School

1. Structuralism in linguistics: 2 The Prague School and functionalism

pictorial depiction

1. Depiction
2. Depiction: 1 The question posed
3. Depiction: 3 Goodman’s radical alternative

Plato

1. Cratylus
2. Language, ancient philosophy of: 2 Plato

Port-Royalists

1. Language, early modern philosophy of

positive logic (Comte, A.)

1. Comte, Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier: 6 The human sciences and the standard conduct of nations

postmodernism

1. Postmodernism: 2 The role of language

practical/poetic comparison

Russian literary formalism

1. Russian literary Formalism
2. Russian literary Formalism: 1 Practical versus poetic language

pragmatics

1. Pragmatics
2. Pragmatism: 2 Pragmatism after the linguistic turn
3. Pragmatism: 3 Pragmatism as anti-representationalism

prescriptive role (Confucius)

1. Logic in China: 1 Confucius: rectifying names

private states

1. Private states and language

programming

classical AI

1. Artificial intelligence: 2 Classical AI

proper names

1. Proper names

psychoanalysis

1. Post-structuralism in the social sciences: 4 The unconscious and desire: from Lacan to Lyotard

Lacan, J.

1. Psychoanalysis, post-Freudian: 3 Psychoanalysis and language in France

purpose of

Berkeley, G.

1. Language, early modern philosophy of: 5 Critique of Locke: Berkeley and Leibniz

Locke, J.

1. Language, early modern philosophy of

radical physicalism (Neurath, O.)

1. Neurath, Otto : 3 Scientific language and scientific method: the Vienna Circle and Neurath’s logical empiricism (1931ߝ5)

reality

Nietzsche, F.W. critique

1. Nietzsche, Friedrich: 6 Philosophy and the ascetic ideal

ontological categories

Indian philosophy

1. Ontology in Indian philosophy: 1 Categories

reason

Reinhold, K.L.

1. Reinhold, Karl Leonhard

Thomasius, C.

1. Thomasius (Thomas), Christian: 3 Practical philosophy

relations with world

1. Abstract objects: 1 Logical and ontological categories

religious

Renaissance philosophy of

1. Language, Renaissance philosophy of
2. Renaissance philosophy

analogy

1. Language, Renaissance philosophy of: 4 Analogy

beings of reason

1. Language, Renaissance philosophy of: 3 Intentional contexts and beings of reason

Collegium Conimbricense

1. Collegium Conimbricense

Erasmus, D.

1. Erasmus, Desiderius: 5 Philosophy of language

humanism

1. Humanism, Renaissance: 4 Language
2. Language, Renaissance philosophy of: 5 Humanism

Latin usage (Valla, L.)

1. Valla, Lorenzo: 1 Life and works
2. Valla, Lorenzo: 4 Logic
3. Valla, Lorenzo: 4 Logic

magic (Agrippa von Nettesheim, H.C.)

1. Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henricus Cornelius: 2 Verbal magic

mental

1. Language, Renaissance philosophy of: 2 Mental, spoken, natural and conventional languages
2. Major, John: 2 Logic

signification

1. Language, Renaissance philosophy of: 1 Signs and signification

Soto, D. de

1. Soto, Domingo de: 2 Logic

theories of origins of

1. Language, Renaissance philosophy of: 2 Mental, spoken, natural and conventional languages

rhetoric

1. De Man, Paul
2. Rhetoric: 1 Philosophy and rhetoric at their beginning
3. Rhetoric: 1 Philosophy and rhetoric at their beginning
4. Rhetoric: 2 Philosophical problems posed by rhetoric
5. Rhetoric: 3 Rhetorical methods and philosophy

rule-following (Wittgenstein, L.)

1. Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann: 10 Rule-following

sacred

Vedas

1. Interpretation, Indian theories of: 1 Text and interpreter

Sanskrit

1. Indian and Tibetan philosophy

self-presence (Derrida, J.)

1. Derrida, Jacques
2. Derrida, Jacques: 2 Deconstruction

semantic reism (Kotarbiński, T.)

1. Kotarbinski, Tadeusz: 2 Semantic reism

semiotic-symbolic dialectic (Kristeva, J.)

1. Kristeva, Julia
2. Kristeva, Julia: 2 Linguistics

sense perception

Indian views of

1. Sense perception, Indian views of
2. Sense perception, Indian views of: 6 Perception and language

signs

Bacon, R.

1. Bacon, Roger: 4 Linguistic work

Berkeley, G.

1. Berkeley, George: 5 The Introduction to the Principles
2. Berkeley, George: 11 Alciphron and The Analyst

Kristeva, J.

1. Kristeva, Julia

similarity classes (Hui Shi)

1. Logic in China: 8 Hui Shi: relativism and monism

social conduct (Dewey, J.)

1. Dewey, John: 2 Philosophical anthropology

social nature of

1. Language, social nature of

gender

1. Language and gender: 2 Gender and language in social practice

Mauthner, F.

1. Mauthner, Fritz: 2 Philosophy as critique of language

socialization

Chinese philosophy

1. Logic in China: 2 Mozi: language utilitarianism

spiritual power of

Buddhism

Japanese

1. Buddhist philosophy, Japanese: 1 Language

Japanese philosophy

1. Buddhist philosophy, Japanese: 1 Language
2. Japanese philosophy: 1 Archaic spirituality

standards

Chinese philosophy

1. Logic in China: 2 Mozi: language utilitarianism

structuralism

Barthes, R.

1. Barthes, Roland: 1 Early writings

Lacan, J.

1. Lacan, Jacques

literary theory

1. Structuralism in literary theory
2. Structuralism in literary theory: 1 Historical overview

social science

1. Post-structuralism in the social sciences: 1 Structuralism in the social sciences
2. Structuralism in social science
3. Structuralism in social science: 2 Structural linguistics
4. Structuralism in social science: 3 Classical structuralism

testimony

1. Testimony: 4 Vulnerable assumptions

Indian philosophy

1. Testimony in Indian philosophy

theological roots (Losev, A.F.)

1. Losev, Aleksei Fëdorovich: 1 Philosophy of language, myth and symbol

and thought

Aristotle

1. Language, ancient philosophy of

Condillac, É.B. de

1. Language, early modern philosophy of: 6 The origin of language: Condillac and Rousseau

Hamann, J.G.

1. Hamann, Johann Georg: 2 Philosophy of language

Heidegger, M.

1. Derrida, Jacques: 1 Historical context and influences

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

1. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

unity of

1. Humboldt, Wilhelm von

thought-vehicle paradigm (Dummett, M.A.E.)

1. Dummett, Michael Anthony Eardley: 1 Sense

Tibetan

1. Indian and Tibetan philosophy

transposition of (Gilbert of Poitiers)

1. Gilbert of Poitiers: 5 The nature of theological discourse

truth theories

1. Meaning and truth: 2 Truth theories

typology (Humboldt, W. von)

1. Humboldt, Wilhelm von

understanding

1. Intuitionistic logic and antirealism: 6 Dummett’s antirealist argument

universal

1. Universal language

Leibniz, G.W.

1. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm: 10 Logic and language

usage (Theophrastus)

1. Theophrastus: 2 Logic and grammar
2. Theophrastus: 3 Psychology

use/mention distinction

1. Use/mention distinction and quotation

utterances (Bakhtin, M.M.)

1. Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich: 2 Language as dialogic
2. Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich: 4 Double-voicing

vernaculars (Alighieri, Dante)

1. Language, medieval theories of: 17 The diversity of languages

Weltalter philosophy (Schelling, F.W.J. von)

1. Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von: 3 The Ages of the World (1809ߝc.1827)

worldview

Chinese philosophy

1. Dao

written

Derrida, J.

deconstruction

1. Derrida, Jacques: 2 Deconstruction

phonetic/non-phonetic contrast

1. Derrida, Jacques: 2 Deconstruction