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... meaning as truth " theory. Influence language " ( also known as the Oxford school ) came into its own in the 1940s . According to the philosophers of this group , natural language , far from being the crude instru- ment the Positivists ...
... meaning as truth " theory. Influence language " ( also known as the Oxford school ) came into its own in the 1940s . According to the philosophers of this group , natural language , far from being the crude instru- ment the Positivists ...
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... meaning of any sentence at all and certainly not the meaning of all the sentences the speakers of a language are able to understand . 66 What was needed was a theory explaining the contri- bution of individual words - a clearly finite ...
... meaning of any sentence at all and certainly not the meaning of all the sentences the speakers of a language are able to understand . 66 What was needed was a theory explaining the contri- bution of individual words - a clearly finite ...
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... meaning of words encoded in a language ? " " How is this meaning to be determined ? " " What are the laws governing change of meaning ? " and " How can the meaning of a word be given , expressed , or defined ? " A few examples will ...
... meaning of words encoded in a language ? " " How is this meaning to be determined ? " " What are the laws governing change of meaning ? " and " How can the meaning of a word be given , expressed , or defined ? " A few examples will ...
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