A mediated reference theory (also indirect reference theory) is any semantic theory that posits that words refer to something in the external world, but...
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causal theory of reference or historical chain theory of reference is a theory of how terms acquire specific referents based on evidence. Such theories have...
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with the descriptivist theory, which has been called the mediated reference theory or Frege–Russell view. In the 1970s, this theory came under attack from...
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philosopher Gottlob Frege argued against it, and contrasted it with mediated reference theory. In 1953, with his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein...
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Philosophy of language (redirect from Theory of reference)
interacts with the world are called theories of reference. Gottlob Frege was an advocate of a mediated reference theory. Frege divided the semantic content...
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Meaning (philosophy) (redirect from Ideational theory of meaning)
might be picked out by more than one sense. This sort of theory is called a mediated reference theory. Frege argued that, ultimately, the same bifurcation...
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Intensional logic Mediated reference theory Temperature paradox Theories of language Use–mention distinction "On Sense and Reference" ["Über Sinn und Bedeutung"]...
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Concept (section Theory-theory)
whales don't in fact fit the theory we had about what makes something a fish. Theory-theory also postulates that people's theories about the world are what...
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Analytic philosophy (section Confirmation theory)
Frege's paper "On Sense and Reference" (1892) is seminal, containing Frege's puzzles and providing a mediated reference theory. His paper "The Thought: A...
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Gottlob Frege (section Sense and reference)
between the sense and reference (Sinn und Bedeutung) of names and other expressions, sometimes said to involve a mediated reference theory. As a philosopher...
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Speech act (redirect from Speech-act theory)
goes back to J. L. Austin's development of performative utterances and his theory of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts. Speech acts serve...
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Semantics (redirect from Theories of semantics)
all possible worlds. Ideational theories, also called mentalist theories, are not primarily interested in the reference of expressions and instead explain...
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Hellenistic theories of signs. Among the mainstream in the theories of signs, i.e., that of Aristotle and that of Stoics, the former theory filtered into...
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Entity (category Articles needing additional references from December 2021)
Everything Html entity Non-physical entity Object (philosophy) Circular reference Hubert L. Dreyfus, Mark A. Wrathall, eds., A Companion to Heidegger (2008)...
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Lev Vygotsky (category Articles needing additional references from March 2023)
mediated by cultural tools and controlled by an individual. Vygotsky came to the conclusion that consciousness is possible because of the mediated nature...
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(non-linguistic) Meaning (philosophy of language) Meaning (semiotics) Mediated reference theory Meinong's jungle Mental representation Mental space Metalanguage...
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Direct reference theory Dramatism Dynamic semantics Expressivism Inquisitive semantics Linguistic determinism Mediated reference theory Nominalism Non-cognitivism...
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The theory of descriptions is the philosopher Bertrand Russell's most significant contribution to the philosophy of language. It is also known as Russell's...
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Linguistics (category All articles lacking reliable references)
turned to text-based discourse occurring in various formats of computer-mediated communication as a viable site for linguistic inquiry. The study of writing...
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Philosophical Investigations (redirect from Use theory of meaning)
is that meaning is use. According to the use theory of meaning, the words are not defined by reference to the objects they designate or by the mental...
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Stoicism (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
philosophical inspiration for modern cognitive psychotherapy, particularly as mediated by Albert Ellis' Rational-Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), the major precursor...
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combined by the syntactic operation. As a guideline for constructing semantic theories, this is generally taken, as in the influential work on the philosophy...
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the schemata or inferential structure of the argument. In argumentation theory or informal logic, an argument form is sometimes seen as a broader notion...
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Sentence (linguistics) (category All articles lacking reliable references)
simplexes. See also copula for the consequences of the verb to be on the theory of sentence structure. One traditional scheme for classifying English sentences...
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Direct reference theory Dramatism Dynamic semantics Expressivism Inquisitive semantics Linguistic determinism Mediated reference theory Nominalism Non-cognitivism...
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Supposition theory was a branch of medieval logic that was probably aimed at giving accounts of issues similar to modern accounts of reference, plurality...
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cybernetics, social theory, ethics and the study of language and information. The logic of information, also known as the logical theory of information, considers...
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actual thing or set of things a sign refers to. See Dyadic signs and Reference (semantics). Without intension of some sort, a word has no meaning. For...
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Deconstruction (redirect from Deconstruction (philosophical theory))
hymen, gram, spacing).: 19 [jargon][further explanation needed] Derrida's theories on deconstruction were themselves influenced by the work of linguists such...
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The theory of mediation, which is the principal referent of the research group of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Language Research (L.I.R.L.), is...
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