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View emphasising importance of language in philosophy
Linguistic philosophy is the view that many or all philosophical problems can be solved (or dissolved) by paying closer attention to language, either
Linguistic_philosophy
View that philosophical problems are distortions of natural language
ordinary language philosophy (also called linguistic philosophy) was taken as either an extension of or as an alternative to analytic philosophy. Ordinary language
Ordinary_language_philosophy
Early-20th-century development in Western philosophy
The linguistic turn was a major development in Western philosophy during the early 20th century, the most important characteristic of which is the focusing
Linguistic_turn
Austrian mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1896–1959)
work, was published posthumously in English as The Principles of Linguistic Philosophy in 1965. Further material and notes from the period were published
Friedrich_Waismann
Hypothesis of language influencing thought
Linguistic relativity asserts that language influences worldview or cognition. One form of linguistic relativity, linguistic determinism, regards peoples'
Linguistic_relativity
20th-century tradition of Western philosophy
characterized by the linguistic turn, or a concern with language and meaning. Analytic philosophy is often contrasted with continental philosophy, a catch-all
Analytic_philosophy
Sense or significance of an entity
discussed in ancient Indian philosophy, often focusing on the Sanskrit term artha, which denotes both linguistic and non-linguistic meaning. The schools of
Meaning_(philosophy)
Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist (1925–1995)
correspondence on his analytical critique of linguistic philosophy. Gellner served for 22 years as Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the
Ernest_Gellner
Theoretical study of law
Jurisprudence, also known as legal theory or legal science, is the philosophy of law. As a field of knowledge, it applies philosophical methods to legal
Jurisprudence
Branch of philosophy
Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell were pivotal figures in analytic philosophy's "linguistic turn". These writers were followed by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus
Philosophy_of_language
View on the purpose of philosophy
it defuses confusions in the linguistic and conceptual frameworks of other subjects, including non-quietist philosophy. For quietists, advancing knowledge
Quietism_(philosophy)
Study of meaning in language
Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends
Semantics
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
work, was eventually published in English as The Principles of Linguistic Philosophy (1965). Some further draft materials for the project and dictations
Ludwig_Wittgenstein
Scientific study of language
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Specific areas of linguistic description and analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences)
Linguistics
English philosopher (1899–1973)
Second Thoughts in Moral Philosophy. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1959. (New edition, 2012.) Non-linguistic Philosophy. London: George Allen & Unwin
A._C._Ewing
British philosopher and classicist (1915–2012)
number of topics including British analytic/linguistic philosophy, George Berkeley, ethics, and Greek philosophy (especially Aristotle). J. O. Urmson was
J._O._Urmson
Study of general and fundamental questions
characterizes philosophy as thinking about thinking to emphasize its self-critical, reflective nature. A further approach presents philosophy as a linguistic therapy
Philosophy
Concept in philosophy
a linguistic or social construct rather than a physical entity. The self (or its non-existence) is also an important concept in Eastern philosophy, including
Philosophy_of_self
Arabic scholar and grammarian (932–1002)
contributions to Arabic grammar, morphology, and phonology. His work in linguistic philosophy and morphology played a significant role in advancing the study
Ibn_Jinni
Philosophy of science applied to linguistics
linguistic theories should take, and what counts as data in linguistic research. This distinguishes the philosophy of linguistics from the philosophy
Philosophy_of_linguistics
Philosophy using an idealized language
Formal language theory Linguistic philosophy Barber, Alex; Stainton, Robert, eds. (2010). Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
Ideal_language_philosophy
Postmodern architectural movement since the 1980s
communicating meaning and of receiving treatments by methods of linguistic philosophy. The dialectic of presence and absence, or solid and void occurs
Deconstructivism
Study of linguistics in Pali language
preserving the sacred texts of the Pali Canon (Tipiṭaka) by analyzing its linguistic elements, such as words, affixes, and rules of sentence formation. The
Byākaraṇa
Theory of the biological component of the language faculty
constraints on what the grammar of a possible human language could be. When linguistic stimuli are received in the course of language acquisition, children then
Universal_grammar
Gujarati writer and linguist from India
prior to taking up full-time academic pursuits. He has written on linguistic philosophy as well as on literary theories in Gujarati, including a recently
Babu_Suthar
Topics referred to by the same term
Meaning (non-linguistic), a general term of art to capture senses of the word "meaning", independent from its linguistic uses Meaning (philosophy), definition
Meaning
Chinese pronunciation system (601 AD)
mean?", in Branner, David Prager (ed.), The Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic Philosophy and Historical-Comparative Phonology, Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Middle_Chinese
Indian linguist and author (1949–2015)
Korodigarh and Kankali Dai of Chandagarh. To establish and promote Gondi philosophy and religion (Koya Punem), he envisaged the Bhumka (Purohit) federation
Motiravan_Kangali
American philosophy professor
the University of Bonn. Language and German Idealism: Fichte’s Linguistic Philosophy. Bloomsbury Academic. 1996-02-01. ISBN 978-1-57392-407-8. Culture
Jere_Surber
Philosophical view explaining systems in terms of smaller parts
often associated with various philosophies like emergence, materialism, and determinism. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy suggests that reductionism is
Reductionism
1978 television series
Two Philosophies of Wittgenstein", with Anthony Quinton "Logical Positivism and its Legacy", with A. J. Ayer "The Spell of Linguistic Philosophy", with
Men_of_Ideas
Important impulses also came from upholders of linguistic scepticism, linguistic criticism and linguistic philosophy, such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Fritz Mauthner
Wiener_Gruppe
Study about Hindu Vedas
Vyakarana deals with linguistic analysis to establish the exact form of words to properly express ideas, while Nirukta focuses on linguistic analysis to help
Nirukta
Study of linguistics in Sanskrit language
which are scriptures in Hinduism. Vyākaraṇa is the study of grammar and linguistic analysis in the Sanskrit language. Pāṇini and Yāska are the two celebrated
Vyākaraṇa
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
also did not consider the linguistic sign as random, but as historically cemented. All in all, he did not invent the philosophy of arbitrariness but made
Ferdinand_de_Saussure
Chinese syllable sound charts
(ed.), The Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic Philosophy and Historical-Comparative Phonology, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 271, Amsterdam: John
Rime_table
English philosopher (1919–2006)
University of Oxford. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1987. He had previously held
P._F._Strawson
Pseudoscientific approach to psychotherapy
not bear authentic resemblance to any of Chomsky's theories or philosophies—linguistic, cognitive or political." According to André Muller Weitzenhoffer
Neuro-linguistic_programming
1969 book on speech act theory by John R. Searle
language philosophy. The book advances the view that speaking a language is a kind of rule-governed behaviour and that the basic units of linguistic communication
Speech_Acts_(book)
Bearer of truth values
space and time, psychological entities dependent on mental activity, or linguistic entities grounded in language. Paradoxes challenge the different theories
Proposition
Any constructed language that is constructed from first principles
Characteristica universalis Engineered language Ideal language philosophy Linguistic philosophy Natural semantic metalanguage Edmonds, George. A Universal
Philosophical_language
Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein's thought after 1932, a method of linguistic analysis which would later become ordinary language philosophy. It has been described as the "most readily
Blue_and_Brown_Books
Academic fields of study or professions
Lexicology Linguistic typology Morphology Natural language processing Philosophy of language Philosophy of linguistics Linguistic philosophy Philology
Outline of academic disciplines
Outline_of_academic_disciplines
Study of the development of philosophy
positivism, formal logic, linguistic analysis, phenomenology, existentialism, and postmodernism. Arabic–Persian philosophy was strongly influenced by
History_of_philosophy
Argument in philosophy that a term has a definition when used to define things
concept. This argument was commonly applied during the flourishing of linguistic philosophy. Ian Hacking was critical of the argument structure, describing
Paradigm_case_argument
British philosopher (1900–1976)
"first clear public statement of the view of philosophy that has come to be known as Linguistic Philosophy", while G.J. Warnock says of his book, The Concept
Gilbert_Ryle
German social philosopher (1929–2026)
theories of Max Weber, Émile Durkheim and George Herbert Mead the linguistic philosophy and speech act theories of Ludwig Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, P
Jürgen_Habermas
German philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)
new and important tradition in the philosophy of language, presaging what would later become known as Linguistic relativity. Herder did not adhere to
Johann_Gottfried_Herder
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
from the apparent disjunct among modern, logical, and analytical linguistic philosophy and medieval speculations on language that fell under the heading
Walter_Benjamin
Sign pointing to or indexing an object in its context
academic traditions, including those of linguistic pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and Anglo-American philosophy of language. Words and expressions in
Indexicality
French philosopher (1859–1941)
philosopher who was influential in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until
Henri_Bergson
1921 philosophical work by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Friedrich Waismann. It also influenced Bertrand Russell's article "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism". Wittgenstein's later works, notably the posthumously
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus
Idea of language as the principal framework in dictating human thought
Linguistic determinism is the concept that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such
Linguistic_determinism
Metaphysics concept covering the divide between two types of entities
In philosophy, a fundamental distinction exists between abstract and concrete entities. While there is no universally accepted definition, common examples
Abstract_and_concrete
English philosopher (1929–2003)
N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ISSN 1095-5054. OCLC 429049174. "The Spell of Linguistic Philosophy", Bryan Magee interviews Bernard Williams
Bernard_Williams
Study of how language influences social life
Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the
Linguistic_anthropology
Concept of focusing on form over concept
emphasis on form over content or meaning in the arts, literature, or philosophy. A practitioner of formalism is called a formalist. A formalist, with
Formalism_(philosophy)
British Marxist philosopher (1909–1980)
In Defense of Philosophy against Positivism and Pragmatism (1955) Philosophy for Socialists (1959) Marxism and the Linguistic Philosophy (1965) ISBN 0853151199
Maurice_Cornforth
Words and contextual actions which provide a complete meaning
the entry for Ludwig Wittgenstein in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Logico-linguistic modeling. This is an application of the language-game concept
Language_game_(philosophy)
Book by Philip Carr
Linguistic Realities: An Autonomist Metatheory for the Generative Enterprise is a book on philosophy of linguistics by Philip Carr in which the author
Linguistic_Realities
British psychologist (1923–2008)
Dyslexia. He also wrote extensively on the nature of intelligence, linguistic philosophy, religion and science. OBE Services to Dyslexia 2003 On Helping
Thomas_Richard_Miles
Belgian political philosopher and political economist (born 1951)
unconditional basic income and for the first systematic treatment of linguistic justice. In 2020, he was listed by Prospect as the eighth-greatest thinker
Philippe_Van_Parijs
Untersuchung" in the philosophy journal Beiträge zur Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus (English: Contributions to the philosophy of German idealism)
Thought_(essay)
Work of objectively describing language use
elicitation methods. Linguistic description, as used in academic and professional linguistics, is often contrasted with linguistic prescription, which
Linguistic_description
Scottish philosopher and parapsychologist
of Linguistic Philosophy (1970) Perception: Facts and Theories (1971) Game Fishing: Methods and Memories (1978) A Critique of Linguistic Philosophy with
Clement_Mundle
System of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language
linguistics, linguistic competence is the system of unconscious knowledge that one has when one knows a language. It is distinguished from linguistic performance
Linguistic_competence
Specialty in philosophy, focused on German language origin
of idealism in the philosophy of language and philosophy of mathematics, beginning the "linguistic turn" and analytic philosophy, the dominant style
German_philosophy
Differentiating and characterizing feature
In philosophy and logic (especially metaphysics), a property is a characteristic of an object; for example, a red object is said to have the property of
Property_(philosophy)
Kashmiri Shavite Thinker
characterizes Utpaladeva's philosophy as a "unique blend of epistemology, metaphysics, religious experience, linguistic philosophy and aesthetic speculation
Utpaladeva
Treatise Bhartṛhari: Vākyapadīya (treatise on Sanskrit grammar and linguistic philosophy), Śatakatraya (the three hundred poems of moral values) Siddhasena:
Ancient_literature
Study of being on the continent
Professor of Philosophy at Sydney University from 1927 to 1958. He developed a complete realist philosophy that contrasted with the linguistic philosophy then
Australian_philosophy
1979 book by Richard Rorty
philosophers of the 20th century; Wittgenstein for his diagnosis of philosophy as a set of linguistic confusions, Heidegger for his historical deconstruction of
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Philosophy_and_the_Mirror_of_Nature
Academic debate about conceptualization of time in Hopi language
Francisca; Prinze, Jesse (2009). "Reviving Whorf: The Return of Linguistic Relativity". Philosophy Compass. 4 (6): 1022–1032. doi:10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00260
Hopi_time_controversy
682–744 khaganate founded by the Göktürks
Takashi. David Prager Branner, (2006), The Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic philosophy and historical-comparative phonology Empires, Diplomacy, and Frontiers
Second_Turkic_Khaganate
Structured system of communication
and that the study of philosophy is essentially the study of language, is associated with what has been called the linguistic turn and philosophers such
Language
Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1970). Aspects of Language: Essays in Philosophy of Language, Linguistic Philosophy, and Methodology of Linguistics. Amsterdam: North-Holland
Yehoshua_Bar-Hillel
French philosopher (1930–2004)
July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he applied in some of his texts, and which he
Jacques_Derrida
Phenomenon whereby language is used to discuss possible situations
expressions using formal tools derived from modal logic. Within philosophy, linguistic modality is often studied alongside broader metaphysical notions
Modality_(semantics)
Two types of knowledge, justification, or argument
sciences generally involve a posteriori justification. In the history of philosophy, the a priori–a posteriori distinction first appeared in the writings
A_priori_and_a_posteriori
German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)
of analytic philosophy, whose work on logic and language gave rise to the linguistic turn in philosophy. His contributions to the philosophy of language
Gottlob_Frege
German philosopher (1724–1804)
Marxism, positivism, phenomenology, existentialism, critical theory, linguistic philosophy, structuralism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction. During his
Immanuel_Kant
Prescriptive rules of grammar and usage
Linguistic prescription is the establishment of rules defining publicly preferred usage of language, including rules of spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary
Linguistic_prescription
Philosophy of the Western world
some problems of philosophy to be artifacts of language. This approach has been described as the linguistic turn of analytic philosophy. Ryle introduced
Western_philosophy
Linguistic transparency is a phrase which is used in multiple, overlapping subjects in the fields of linguistics and the philosophy of language. It has
Transparency_(linguistic)
Restricted form of the English language
proficiency – Measurement of linguistic ability Linguistic philosophy – View emphasising importance of language in philosophy Linguistic relativity – Hypothesis
E-Prime
Numbers assigned to tone types in tonal languages
Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic Philosophy and Historical-Comparative Phonology. Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV: Current
Tone_number
British philosopher (1898–1997)
think) in The Hobbit is...: an odd mythological way of referring to linguistic philosophy, and a point that will (happily) be missed by any who have not read
Owen_Barfield
Fundamental unit of cognition
Jackendoff 2011, p. 688 Margolis & Laurence 2023, § 4.3 Linguistic Determinism and Linguistic Relativity Eysenck & Keane 2015, § Part III: Language, §
Concept
Philosophy in the ancient world
This page lists some links to ancient philosophy, namely philosophical thought extending as far as early post-classical history (c. 600 CE). Genuine philosophical
Ancient_philosophy
Movement in Western philosophy
Sarkar 1996 and Ayer 1959) and Carnap's Philosophy and Logical Syntax. Allen, Barry (2007). "Turning back the linguistic turn in the theory of knowledge". Thesis
Logical_positivism
Philosophical position developed by Richard Rorty
primarily due to the influence of the linguistic turn in philosophy that occurred in the early 20th century. The linguistic turn reduced talk of mind, ideas
Neopragmatism
Branch of philosophy
Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world. The mind–body
Philosophy_of_mind
Tonal system of Middle Chinese
Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic Philosophy and Historical-Comparative Phonology. Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV: Current
Four_tones_(Middle_Chinese)
Spanish philosopher
assumptions in its linguistic philosophy. In this work, she applies select tools from the theory of meaning developed in analytic philosophy of language to
Cristina_Lafont
1640 philosophical text by Thomas Hobbes
them". Linguistic philosophy was a persistent concern for him, and his work on it, including in Elements, been related to 20th-century philosophy of language
The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
The_Elements_of_Law,_Natural_and_Politic
Philosophical study of knowledge
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called the theory of knowledge, it explores different
Epistemology
Principle that allows one to eliminate unlikely explanations
In philosophy, a razor is a principle or rule of thumb that allows one to eliminate (shave off) unlikely explanations for a phenomenon, or avoid unnecessary
Philosophical_razor
Ancient Greek philosopher (fl. c. 500 BC)
between Heraclitus, the logos, and the early Ludwig Wittgenstein's linguistic philosophy in the Tractatus (1922). Aristotle's arguments for the law of non-contradiction
Heraclitus
Philosophical study of beauty and art
Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy that studies beauty, taste, and related phenomena. In a broad sense, it includes the philosophy of art, which examines
Aesthetics
Study of how society shapes language and language use
sociolinguistics is closely related to and can partly overlap with pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and sociology of language, the latter focusing on the effect
Sociolinguistics
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