Concept

Natural language

Overview

language naturally spoken by humans, as opposed to "constructed" and "formal" languages

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Natural language

• John McDowell
• Arthur Prior
• Paul Grice
• Richard Montague
• Norman Malcolm
• Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
• Gareth Evans (philosopher)
• Peter Carruthers (philosopher)
• Terence Parsons
• Nigidius Figulus
• George Dalgarno
• Henryk Hiż

Related ideas

• Formal language
• Fiction
• Sign language
• Writing
• Computer programming
• Ambiguity
• Esperanto
• Animal language

Opposing perspectives

• Humanities
• Logical disjunction

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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