Concept
Meaning (semiotics)
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philosophical concept
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Sec. 1. _The Place of Meanings in Mental Life_ [Sidenote: Meaning is central] As in our discussion of judgment we were making more explicit what is involved in inference, so in the discussion of meaning we are only recurring to the central function of all reflection. For one thing to _mean_, _signify_, _betoken_, _indicate_, or _point to_, another we saw at the outset to be the essential mark of thinking (see p. 8).
John Dewey, How We Think
The chapter “MEANING: OR CONCEPTIONS AND UNDERSTANDING” is titled for Meaning; names Meaning several times.
Meaning is simply a function of the situation: this thing means that thing: meaning is this relationship. A meaning is something quite different; it is not a function, but a specific entity, a peculiar thing, namely the man _as_ suggested.
John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic
Names Meaning several times; states what Meaning is.
The content of a belief, when expressed in words, is the same thing (or very nearly the same thing) as what in logic is called a "proposition." A proposition is a series of words (or sometimes a single word) expressing the kind of thing that can be asserted or denied. "That all men are mortal," "that Columbus discovered America," "that Charles I died in his bed," "that all philosophers are wise," are propositions…
Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind
Names Meaning several times; states what Meaning is.
Philosophers who discussed Meaning (semiotics)
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