• A philosophical language is any constructed language that is constructed from first principles, sometimes following a classification. It is considered...
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    a Philosophical Language (London, 1668) is the best-remembered of the numerous works of John Wilkins, in which he expounds a new universal language, meant...
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  • A language-game (German: Sprachspiel) is a philosophical concept developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, referring to simple examples of language use and the...
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    Engineered languages (engelangs), further subdivided into logical languages (loglangs), philosophical languages and experimental languages, devised for...
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  • the language." Wittgenstein begins Philosophical Investigations with a quote from Augustine's Confessions, which represents the view that language serves...
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  • scientia sermocinalis (science of language). The result of their studies was the elaboration of linguistic-philosophical notions whose complexity and subtlety...
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  • about how languages work or might work. There are at least three subcategories, philosophical languages (or ideal languages), logical languages (sometimes...
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  • John Wilkins' unnamed 'philosophical language', Esperanto, Blissymbols, Loglan and its descendant Lojban, and the Klingon language designed for the Star...
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  • List of philosophies, schools of thought and philosophical movements. Contents Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also Absurdism...
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  • starting point of inquiry, whereas ordinary language philosophers extract philosophical insights from ordinary language. Intuition-based methods, like thought...
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  • Ordinary language philosophy (OLP) is a philosophical methodology that sees traditional philosophical problems as rooted in misunderstandings philosophers...
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  • A philosophical zombie (or "p-zombie") is a being in a thought experiment in the philosophy of mind that is physically identical to a normal human being...
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    Philosophical pessimism is a philosophical tradition which argues that life is not worth living and that non-existence is preferable to existence. Thinkers...
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  • or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group. It may also be called a cryptolect, argot, pseudo-language, anti-language...
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    philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, and political philosophy. Aesthetics in the philosophical sense is...
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    Logico-Philosophicus (widely abbreviated and cited as TLP) is the only book-length philosophical work by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein that was published...
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    literary treatment of philosophers and philosophical themes (the literature of philosophy), and the philosophical treatment of issues raised by literature...
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  • Philosophical skepticism (UK spelling: scepticism; from Greek σκέψις skepsis, "inquiry") is a family of philosophical views that question the possibility...
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  • appear, most importantly the idea that many philosophical contradictions appear because of a misuse of language, and a stress on the importance of distinguishing...
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  • language: e.g., philosophy of language, semiotics, phenomenology, hermeneutics, literary theory, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Philosophical poets...
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  • closer to fruition. Other 17th-century proposals for a 'philosophical' (i.e. universal) language include those by Francis Lodwick, Thomas Urquhart (possibly...
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  • Philosophical realism—usually not treated as a position of its own but as a stance towards other subject matters— is the view that a certain kind of thing...
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  • of sense-data". philosophical pessimism A family of philosophical views that assign a negative value to life or existence. Philosophical pessimists commonly...
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    as "natural classes" is held by Anthony Quinton. Conceptualism is a philosophical theory that explains universality of particulars as conceptualized frameworks...
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    gestures. Depending on philosophical perspectives regarding the definition of language and meaning, when used as a general concept, "language" may refer to the...
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  • The Philosophical Library, Inc. ISBN 978-0-231-15727-8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2019. Austin, Patrik (2021). "Theory of language: a...
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  • Philosophical fiction is any fiction that devotes a significant portion of its content to the sort of questions addressed by philosophy. It might explore...
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  • 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...
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    Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) which is a collection of indigenous language documents from around the United...
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  • application of information-theoretic and computational methodologies to philosophical problems. The philosophy of information (PI) has evolved from the philosophy...
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