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Linguistic philosophy
Overview
view emphasising importance of language in philosophy
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This objectification, which converts a sensitive state into a sensible matter to which the sensitive state is referred, also gives this matter "position," a certain typical character. It is not objectified in a merely general way, but is given a specific sort of objectivity. Of these sorts of objectivity there are three mentioned: that of a substantive content; that of an attached dependent content; that of an…
John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic
Close in meaning to Linguistic philosophy; the term itself is not named.
Language is, as we have already seen (ante, p. 15) a case of this joint reference of our own action and that of another to a common situation. Hence its unrivaled significance as a means of social direction. But language would not be this efficacious instrument were it not that it takes place upon a background of coarser and more tangible use of physical means to accomplish results. A child sees persons with whom he…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Close in meaning to Linguistic philosophy; the term itself is not named.
Hence the words and names by themselves, by customary vicinity, contract in the fancy a relation additional to that which they derive purely from being the symbols of related things. Farther, this tendency is strengthened by the structure of language. All languages whatever, even the most barbarous, as far as hath yet appeared, are of a regular and analogical make.
William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1
Close in meaning to Linguistic philosophy; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Linguistic philosophy
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Part of Australian philosophy.