Concept
Context principle
Overview
In the philosophy of language, the context principle is a form of semantic holism holding that a philosopher should "never ... ask for the meaning of a word in isolation, but only in the context of a proposition" (Frege [1884/1980] x).
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Related ideas
- Propositional variable
- Analytic philosophy
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Philosophy of logic
- Psychologism
- Semantic holism
- Bertrand Russell
- Philosophy of mathematics
- Gottlob Frege
- Philosophy of language
- The Foundations of Arithmetic
- Principle of compositionality
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.