Supposition theory was a branch of medieval logic that was probably aimed at giving accounts of issues similar to modern accounts of reference, plurality...

Theory of language is a topic in philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics. It has the goal of answering the questions "What is language?"; "Why...

definitions of meaning: psychological theories, involving notions of thought, intention, or understanding; logical theories, involving notions such as intension...

descriptor in some cases. Theory-theory is a reaction to the previous two theories and develops them further. This theory postulates that categorization...

Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Situation semantics Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological noncognitivism Theory of descriptions...

abstraction of the similarities between various individual things. This theory later came to be called nominalism. However, since Aristotle took these...

goes back to J. L. Austin's development of performative utterances and his theory of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts. Speech acts serve...

coherent "sample" or "object" that we can call "meaning". Rather, the supposition that there are such things is the source of many philosophical confusions...

theory — Galois theory — Game theory — Gauge theory — Graph theory — Group theory — Hodge theory — Homology theory — Homotopy theory — Ideal theory —...

'functional-typological theory', William Croft criticises Saussure's use of the organic analogy: When comparing functional-typological theory to biological theory, one must...

semantics. Theories of meaning are general explanations of the nature of meaning and how expressions are endowed with it. According to referential theories, the...

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...

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...

enzyme that cleaves genetic material Restriction, a term in medieval supposition theory Restriction (mathematics), an aspect of a mathematical function...

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...

Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Situation semantics Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological noncognitivism Theory of descriptions...

Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Situation semantics Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological noncognitivism Theory of descriptions...

a mathematical function) led to his views on a theory of reference. Frege developed his original theory of meaning in early works like Begriffsschrift...

children and creating the framework known as cultural-historical activity theory. After his early death, his books and research were banned in the Soviet...

Hermeneutics – Theory and methodology of text interpretation Integrational linguistics – Theory of language Integrationism – Approach in the theory of communication...

signs which communicate meaning Signified and signifier Supposition theory, medieval European theories of reference Treanor, Brian (2006). Aspects of alterity:...

Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Situation semantics Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological noncognitivism Theory of descriptions...

Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Situation semantics Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological noncognitivism Theory of descriptions...

Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Situation semantics Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological noncognitivism Theory of descriptions...

Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Situation semantics Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological noncognitivism Theory of descriptions...

combined by the syntactic operation. As a guideline for constructing semantic theories, this is generally taken, as in the influential work on the philosophy...

A referential theory of meaning (also called direct reference theory or referential realism) is a theory of language that claims that the meaning of a...

valid argument forms, theory of deduction, propositional logic, modal logic, tense logic, epistemic logic, logic of suppositions, logic of imperatives...

various theories for how humans learn categories. Prevailing theories of category learning include the prototype theory, the exemplar theory, and the...

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...