Concept
Linguistic turn
Overview
early-20th-century development in Western philosophy
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Language has been traditionally treated by European scientists as a collection of sounds instead of an expression of something inner and deeper than the vocal apparatus as it should be. The accumulative effect of language-symbols upon one's mental formulation is still an unexploited field. Dividing the world culture of the living races on this basis, one perceives a fundamental difference of its types between the…
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
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This is a very important discovery. It elevates the mind, emancipates from many vulgar superstitions, and invites to further discoveries of the same kind. "As philosophy advances, life and activity in natural objects retires, and leaves them dead and inactive. Instead of moving voluntarily, we find them to be moved necessarily; instead of acting, we find them to be acted upon; and Nature appears as one great…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic
Close in meaning to Linguistic turn; the term itself is not named.
Belief in the unreality of the world of sense arises with irresistible force in certain moods--moods which, I imagine, have some simple physiological basis, but are none the less powerfully persuasive. The conviction born of these moods is the source of most mysticism and of most metaphysics. When the emotional intensity of such a mood subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical reasons…
Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
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Philosophers who discussed Linguistic turn
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Richard Rorty
- Johann Georg Hamann
- P. F. Strawson
- Gottlob Frege
- Graham Harman
- Gustav Bergmann
- Louis Mink
- Henry Veatch
Related ideas
- Naming and Necessity
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Historiography
- Course in General Linguistics
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Intension
- Immanuel Kant
- Idealism
- Analytic philosophy
- Linguistic philosophy
- Language
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Language game (philosophy)
- Richard Rorty
- Ontology
- Linguistics
- Identity (mathematics)
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Michael Dummett
- Continental philosophy
- Paul de Man
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Bertrand Russell
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.