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  1. Forms of Life.Peter Hacker - 2015 - Nordic Wittgenstein Review 4:1-20.
    The phrase ‘Lebensform’ had a long and varied history prior to Wittgenstein’s use of it on a mere three occasions in the Philosophical Investigations. It is not a pivotal concept in Wittgenstein’s philosophy. But it is a minor signpost of a major reorientation of philosophy, philosophy of language and logic, and philosophy of mathematics that Wittgenstein instigated. For Wittgenstein sought to replace the conception of a language as a meaning calculus by an anthropological or ethnological (...). A language is not a class of sentences that can be formed from a set of axioms, formation and transformation rules and the meanings of which is given by their truth-conditions, but an open-ended series of interlocking language-games constituting a form of life or way of living. Wittgenstein’s uses of ‘Lebensform’ and its cognates, both in the Investigations and in his Nachlass are severally analysed, and various exegetical misinterpretations are clarified. (shrink)
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    Bronislaw Malinowski's Concept of Law.Mateusz Stępień (ed.) - 2016 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    This book discusses the legal thought of Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), undoubtedly one of the titans of social sciences who greatly influenced not only the shape of modern cultural anthropology but also the social sciences as a whole. This is the first comprehensive work to focus on his legal conceptions: while much has been written about his views on language, magic, religion, and culture, his views on law have not been fairly reconstructed or recapitulated. A glance at the existing literature (...)
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    Language, Form(s) of Life, and Logic: Investigations After Wittgenstein.Christian Georg Martin (ed.) - 2018 - Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.
    This volume deals with the connection between thinking-and-speaking and our form of life. All contributions engage with Wittgenstein’s approach to this topic. As a whole, the volume takes a stance against both biological and ethnological interpretations of the notion "form of life" and seeks to promote a broadly logico-linguistic understanding instead. The structure of this book is threefold. Part one focuses on lines of thinking that lead from Wittgenstein’s earlier thought to the concept of form of life in his (...)
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  4. Two Conceptions of Language.P. M. S. Hacker - 2014 - Erkenntnis 79 (S7):1271-1288.
    Two different conceptions of language dominate philosophical reflection on the nature of human language and of human linguistic powers. The first is the conception of language as a calculus of meaning, and of understanding as computational interpretation. This conception is rooted in the exigencies of function-theoretic logic. The notions pivotal to this conception are truth, truth-condition, sense and force, naming and describing (representation), and theory of meaning for natural languages. The alternative conception is (...)
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    Language and Human Action: Conceptions of Language in the Essais of Montaigne.R. A. Watson - 1996 - Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften.
    Certainly the most elaborate single extant monument of Renaissance French prose literature, Michel de Montaigne's "Essais" presents a subject matter that often discusses and analyzes concepts of language in general as well as language as a vehicle of its own expression. This study addresses the author's exploration of the dedalus of language as he ambles and rambles its roads, streets, and alleys; draws the portrait of his philosophy of language or philology; and concludes his affirmative and (...)
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    Cognitive conceptions of language and the development of autobiographical memory.John Sutton - 2002 - Language and Communication 22 (3):375-390.
    The early development of autobiographical memory is a useful case study both for examining general relations between language and memory, and for investigating the promise and the difficulty of interdisciplinary research in the cognitive sciences of memory. An otherwise promising social-interactionist view of autobiographical memory development relies in part on an overly linguistic conception of mental representation. This paper applies an alternative, ‘supra-communicative’ view of the relation between language and thought, along the lines developed by Andy Clark, (...)
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  7. Scientific conceptions of language and their philosophical import.Paul Horwich - 1993 - Philosophical Issues 3:123-133.
    Russian translation of Horwich P. Scientific Conceptions of Language and Their Philosophical Import // Philosophical Issues, 3, 1993. Translated by Ekaterina Mejshutkova with kind permission of the author.
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  8. Scientific Conceptions of Language and Their Philosophical Import.Paul Horwich - 2010 - Analytica 4:87-97.
    Russian translation of Horwich P. Scientific Conceptions of Language and Their Philosophical Import // Philosophical Issues, 3, 1993. Translated by Ekaterina Mejshutkova with kind permission of the author.
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    The Concept of Language[REVIEW]S. E. - 1960 - Review of Metaphysics 13 (3):535-535.
    In answering the question "what is a language?", the author goes beyond Tarski, Carnap and Quine--to whom he is at the same time greatly indebted--and suggests that there cannot be a logic without ontology, that language is conditioned by the world, and that full explication of the concept of language must include pragmatics, not merely syntactics and semantics. This important and fair-minded book presupposes a grasp of symbolic logic. --E. S.
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  10. Gadamer's Concept of Language.Carolyn Culbertson - 2021 - In Theodore George & Gert-Jan Van der Heiden (eds.), The Gadamerian Mind. New York: Routledge. pp. 127-138.
    This chapter presents Gadamer’s conception of language and of its role in the process of understanding. The chapter begins by explaining what Gadamer means when he says that language is characterized by an essential “self-forgetfulness” [Selbstvergessenheit] and how this relates to his account of the fore-structure of the understanding. Next, it explains what it means to conceive of a linguistic presentation (e.g., a poem or a lecture) as a hermeneutic event and how this conceptualization is essential to (...)
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    ‘Contesting Teutomania’: Robert Gordon Latham, ‘race’, ethnology and historical migrations.Oded Y. Steinberg - 2021 - History of European Ideas 47 (8):1331-1347.
    ABSTRACT The essay elucidates the intellectual and historiographical phenomenon of migration to the forefront by engaging with the perceptions of the Teutonic/germanic migrations of the fifth century among a few major Victorian ethnologists and historians. It focuses particularly on the unique view of the ethnologist and philologist Robert Gordon Latham. While many Victorian historians of the mid-nineteenth century became obsessed with the Teutonic narrative, arguing that these ancient tribes had conquered vast territories of Europe, Latham, in contrast, downplayed the impact (...)
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  12. The Expressivist Conception of Language and World: Humboldt and the Charge of Linguistic Idealism and Relativism.Jo-Jo Koo - 2007 - In Jon Burmeister & Mark Sentesy (eds.), On language: analytic, continental and historical contributions. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 3-26.
    Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) is rightly regarded as a thinker who extended the development of the so-called expressivist conception of language and world that Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788) and especially Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) initially articulated. Being immersed as Humboldt was in the intellectual climate of German Romanticism, he aimed not only to provide a systematic foundation for how he believed linguistic research as a science should be conducted, but also to attempt to rectify what he saw as (...)
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    The concept of language.Neil Leslie Wilson - 1959 - [Toronto]: University of Toronto Press.
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    The concept of language.A. N. Prior - 1960 - Philosophical Books 1 (2):19-20.
  15. Talking about God: the concept of analogy and the problem of religious language.Roger M. White - 2010 - Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
    Introduction -- The mathematical roots of the concept of analogy -- Aristotle : the uses of analogy -- Aristotle : analogy and language -- Thomas Aquinas -- Immanuel Kant -- Karl Barth -- Final reflections.
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  16. The Concept of Language.N. L. Wilson - 1962 - Philosophy of Science 29 (3):326-326.
     
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    The Concept of Language.Jack Kaminsky - 1960 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 21 (1):127-128.
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  18. A Medieval Conception of Language in Human Terms: Al-Farabi.Mostafa Younesie - manuscript
    With regard to the new directions in the Humanities, here I am going to consider and examine the approach of al-Farabi as a medieval thinker in introducing a new outlook to “language” in difference with the other views. Thereby, I will explore his challenges in the frame of “philosophical humanism” as a term given by Arkoun (1970) and Kraemer (1984) to the humanism of the Islamic philosophers and their circles, mainly in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Al-Farabi’s conception (...)
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    Two Concepts of Language and Poetry: Edmund Burke and Moses Mendelssohn.Tomá Hlobil - 2000 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (3):447-458.
  20. The concept of truth in the Akan language.Kwasi Wiredu - 1998 - In Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (ed.), African Philosophy: An Anthology. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 176-180.
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    The Concept of Language.Joseph S. Ullian - 1961 - Philosophical Review 70 (1):133.
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  22. The Concept of Truth in the Akan Language.Wiredu Kwasi - 1985 - In P. O. Bodunrin (ed.), Philosophy in Africa: trends and perspectives. Ile-Ife, Nigeria: University of Ife Press.
     
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    The conception of language and the use of paradox in buddhism and taoism.Edward T. Ch'ien - 1984 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 11 (4):375-399.
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    The conception of language and the use of paradox in buddhism and taoism.T. Chten Edward - 1984 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 11 (4):375-399.
  25. Wittgenstein's Conception of Language.Antonin Dolak - 2009 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 16 (3):344-362.
     
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    Meaning and Truth in African Philosophy: Doing African Philosophy with Language.Grivas Muchineripi Kayange - 2018 - Cham: Springer Verlag.
    This book offers a new way of doing African philosophy by building on an analysis of the way people talk. The author bases his investigation on the belief that traditional African philosophy is hidden in expressions used in ordinary language. As a result, he argues that people are engaging in a philosophical activity when they use expressions such as taboos, proverbs, idioms, riddles, and metaphors. The analysis investigates proverbs using the ordinary language approach and Speech Act theory. Next, (...)
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    An Analysis of the Conceptions of Language in the Twentieth-Century's Philosophy of Language.Chen Baoya - 2001 - Contemporary Chinese Thought 32 (3):32-45.
    All concepts, methods, and techniques of the philosophy of language arise from its conceptions of language. Conceptions of language have determined the character of the philosophy of language and the direction of its philosophical research. Various schools and currents within the philosophy of language differ from each other, mainly in the way they understand the referential character of the sign—that is, the relationship between the meaning of a word and its referential object.
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    Wittgenstein’s Critique of the Additive Conception of Language.James F. Conant - 2020 - Nordic Wittgenstein Review 9.
    This paper argues that Wittgenstein, both early and late, rejects the idea that the logically simpler and more fundamental case is that of "the mere sign" and that what a meaningful symbol is can be explained through the elaboration of an appropriately supplemented conception of the sign: the sign plus something. Rather the sign, in the logically fundamental case of its mode of occurrence, is an internal aspect of the symbol. The Tractatus puts this point as follows: “The sign (...)
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    Charles Taylor's Conception of Language and the Current Debate about Theory of Meaning.Hans J. Schneider - 2020 - In Jacob Levy, Jocelyn Maclure & Daniel Weinstock (eds.), Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor. Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 36-48.
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  30. Quotation and Conceptions of Language.Paul Saka - 2011 - Dialectica 65 (2):205-220.
    This paper discusses empty quotation (‘’ is an empty string) and lexical quotation (his praise was, quote, fulsome, unquote), it challenges the minimal theory of quotation (‘ “x” ’ quotes ‘x’) and it defends the identity theory of quotation. In the process it illuminates disciplinary differences between the science of language and the philosophy of language. First, most philosophers assume, without argument, that language includes writing, whereas linguists have reason to identify language with speech (plus sign (...)
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    The Misprision of Pragmatics: Conceptions of Language in Contemporary French Philosophy.J. J. Lecercle - 1987 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 21:21-40.
    I come to praise contemporary French philosophy not to bury it. My aim is not to hail the appearance in France of a native brand of analytic philosophy—in itself an important event in the last decade—but to describe the indirect and selective importation of certain Anglo-Saxon concepts by French philosophers whose practice is far from analytic; and also to describe the resultant misunderstanding. In this paper I shall analyse the use of pragmatic concepts—and of the concept ‘pragmatics’—in the recent work (...)
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    The Concept of Language[REVIEW]Zeno Vendler - 1960 - Journal of Philosophy 57 (12):391-397.
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    What does it look like?: Wittgenstein's philosophy in the light of his conception of language description: part I.Sebastiaan A. Verschuren - 2017 - New York: Peter Lang EDITION.
    This book is the first part of a comprehensive study of Wittgenstein's conception of language description. Describing language was no pastime occupation for the philosopher. It was hard work and it meant struggle. It made for a philosophy that required Wittgenstein's full attention and half his life. His approach had always been working on himself, on how he saw things. The central claim of this book is that nothing will come of our exegetical efforts to see what (...)
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  34. The concept of truth in formalized languages.Alfred Tarski - 1956 - In Logic, semantics, metamathematics. Oxford,: Clarendon Press. pp. 152--278.
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    The platonist's concept of language.Frederick Sontag - 1954 - Journal of Philosophy 51 (25):823-830.
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    Brouwer's conception of language, mind and mathematics'.Hiroshi Kaneko - 2002 - Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 11 (1):35-49.
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    The Concept of Language. N. L. Wilson. [REVIEW]Y. Bar-Hillel - 1962 - Philosophy of Science 29 (3):326-326.
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    The Concept of Truth in Empirical Languages.Marian Przełęcki - 1977 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 3 (1):1-17.
    The model theoretic concept of truth has thus far been applied mainly to mathematical languages and theories. The paper presents an attempt to apply it to languages of empirical theories. Such an application must do justice to some characteristic features of empirical discourse. The paper outlines the main problems which a model theoretic theory of truth for empirical languages is bound to face and suggests some solutions to those problems.
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    The Concept of Language[REVIEW]Zeno Vendler - 1960 - Journal of Philosophy 57 (12):391-397.
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    The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 3: Phenomenology of Cognition.Ernst Cassirer & Steve G. Lofts - 2020 - Routledge.
    "In his Phenomenology of Cognition, Cassirer provides a comprehensive and systematic account of the dynamic process involved in the whole of human culture as it progresses from the world of myth and its feeling of social belonging to the highest abstractions of mathematics, logic and theoretical physics. Cassirer engages with the most sophisticated and cutting-edge work in fields ranging from ethnology to classics, egyptology and assyriology to ethology, brain science and psychology to logic, mathematics and theoretical physics. His command of (...)
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    The Anti-Representational Paradigm of Richard Rorty Regarding the Concept of “Language”.Viktoriia Slabouz, Leonid Mozhovyi, Yuliia Butko & Tamiliia Dotsevych - 2021 - Postmodern Openings 12 (4):226-240.
    The article considers the anti-representational paradigm regarding the concept of “language” presented by the American thinker, the founder of neopragmatism, Richard Rorty. Richard Rorty is the most cited philosopher in the Western philosophical community, the popularity of the texts of the American thinker, and the resonance of his ideas in the modern philosophical community are of great interest and discussion. The relevance of the topic in the context of postmodern society is dictated by the fact that modern American philosophy, (...)
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    The Concept of Truth in Empirical Languages.Marian Przełęcki - 1977 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 3 (1):1-17.
    The model theoretic concept of truth has thus far been applied mainly to mathematical languages and theories. The paper presents an attempt to apply it to languages of empirical theories. Such an application must do justice to some characteristic features of empirical discourse. The paper outlines the main problems which a model theoretic theory of truth for empirical languages is bound to face and suggests some solutions to those problems.
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    Narrative, identity and the self.Dieter Teichert - 2004 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 (10-11):10-11.
    The concept of narrative has come to play an important role in a bewildering variety of disciplines such as literary theory, linguistics, historiography, psychology, psychotherapy, ethnology and philosophy due to a number of recent trends in the social sciences including: the rejection of strong apriori unities of experience, the focus on intersubjectivity as the grounding level of experience, the turn to language as the focus of philosophical reflection, and the success of semiotics in articulating the rules for the generation (...)
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    Benjamin's conception of language and Adorno's aesthetic theory.Rodrigo Duarte - 2005 - Kriterion: Journal of Philosophy 46 (112):321-331.
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    Benjamin's conception of language and Adorno's aesthetic theory.Rodrigo Duarte - 2005 - Kriterion: Journal of Philosophy 46 (112):321-331.
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    On the concept of language in some recent theories of meaning.Sören Stenlund - 1989 - Synthese 79 (1):51 - 98.
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  47. From the "'logic of Molecular Syntax' to Molecular Pragmatism. Explanatory deficits in Manfred Eigen's concept of language and communication.Guenther Witzany - 1995 - Evolution and Cognition 2 (1):148-168.
    Manfred Eigen employs the terms language and communication to explain key recombination processes of DNA as well as to explain the self-organization of human language and communication: Life processes as well as language and communication processes are governed by the logic of a molecular syntax, which is the exact depiction of a principally formalizable reality. The author of the present contribution demonstrates that this view of Manfred Eigen’s cannot be sufficiently substantiated and that it must be supplemented (...)
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    Phenomenology of Language and the Concept of Practical Reason in the Thought of Charles Taylor.Carlos Medina - 2014 - Cinta de Moebio 50:53-69.
    Taking as a starting point Taylor's concept about man as a being of meanings, this article examines, in particular, the way that Taylor elaborates his conception of the practical use of reason, recovering some fundamental notions of the phenomenological tradition and hermeneutics, relating to language, such as, the idea of the background, and the incarnated situation of man. Considering that, ultimately, the background is a horizon of previous reference, from the ontological point of view, to the subjective domain (...)
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  49. New Foundations (Natural Language as a Complex System, or New Foundations for Philosophical Semantics, Epistemology and Metaphysics, Based on the Process-Socio-Environmental Conception of Linguistic Meaning and Knowledge).Gustavo Picazo - 2021 - Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science 9 (6):33–44.
    In this article, I explore the consequences of two commonsensical premises in semantics and epistemology: (1) natural language is a complex system rooted in the communal life of human beings within a given environment; and (2) linguistic knowledge is essentially dependent on natural language. These premises lead me to emphasize the process-socio-environmental character of linguistic meaning and knowledge, from which I proceed to analyse a number of long-standing philosophical problems, attempting to throw new light upon them on these (...)
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    Concepts and language: An essay in generative semantics and the philosophy of language.Philipp L. Peterson - 2019 - Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.
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