Language, Thought and Perception
Author: Uhlan von Slagle
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-01-19
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 3110804492
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Language, Thought and Perception. A Proposed Theory of Meaning
Author: Uhlan Slagle
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9783110995824
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Language, thought and perception: A proposed theory of meaning based on the insights of Ernst Leisi, I. Kant, John St. Mill, Walter Ehrenstein and Wilhelm von Humboldt
The Language of Thought
The Meaning of Meaning
Meaning and Mind
Meaning, Expression and Thought
Author: Wayne A. Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-11-11
Total Pages: 674
ISBN-13: 1139441159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally thoughts and ideas, and that meaning consists in their expression. This expression theory of meaning is developed by carrying out the Gricean programme, explaining what it is for words to have meaning in terms of speaker meaning, and what it is for a speaker to mean something in terms of intention. But Grice's own formulations are rejected and alternatives developed. The foundations of the expression theory are explored at length, and the author develops the theory of thought as a fundamental cognitive phenomenon distinct from belief and desire, argues for the thesis that thoughts have parts, and identifies ideas or concepts with parts of thoughts. This book will appeal to students and professionals interested in the philosophy of language.
The Meaning of Meaning
Some Questions about Language
Author: Mortimer Jerome Adler
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780812691788
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How do meaningless marks and sounds become the meaningful words of a natural language? To what do words having referential significance refer? What is the meaning of the words that do not have referential significance? Can ordinary language really do what it appears to do, or is this an illusion? Dr. Adler maintains that these fundamental questions are not satisfactorily treated in the two main philosophies of language that have dominated twentieth-century thinking on the subject - the syntactical and 'ordinary language' approaches. Drawing upon the tradition of Aristotle, Aquinas, Poinsot, and Husserl, Dr. Adler's own discussion exemplifies the third approach, which he describes as "semantic and lexical." In this now -classic work, the fruit of more than 50 years' concern with the philosophy of language, Dr. Adler advances a powerful theory of meaning and applies it to some outstanding philosophical problems. In unpretentious and uncluttered prose, he provides a limpid introduction to a number of knotty philosophical issues and at the same time issues a challenge to some of the most tenacious doctrines of the modern world.
Language and the Distortion of Meaning
Author: Patrick Degramont
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1992-04-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0814744273
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Patrick de Gramont draws upon evidence from infant observaton and linguistics as well as from information theory in order to make two related points. First, he demonstrates how our prevailing theories of meaning have failed to account for how we distort meaning.
