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Philosophy of language - Frege's Revolution, Semantics, Pragmatics: According to Locke, ideas exist independently of words, which serve merely as their vehicles. Locke’s emphasis on individual words, as well as the foundational role he assigned to psychology, were attacked by the German logician Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), who is generally regarded as the father of modern philosophy of language. Primarily a mathematician, Frege’s interest in language developed as a result of his attempt to devise a logical notation adequate for the formalization of mathematical reasoning. As a part of this effort, he invented not only modern mathematical logic but also a groundbreaking philosophical theory of meaning. The fundamental notion

philosophy of language Introduction Scope and background Thought, communication, and understanding The “mist and veil of words” Skepticism Traditional questions Words and ideas Frege’s revolution Russell’s theory of descriptions Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logical positivism The later Wittgenstein Ordinary language philosophy Later work on meaning Indeterminacy and hermeneutics Quine The hermeneutic tradition Indeterminacy and truth Chomsky Causation and computation Teleological semantics Practical and expressive language Speech acts Implicatures Metaphor and other figures References & Edit Histo

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