philosophy of language

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Here is a list of articles in the Philosophy of language category of the Philosophy portal. Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that studies language. Its primary concerns include the nature of linguistic meaning, reference, language use, language learning and creation, language understanding, truth, thought and experience (to the extent that both are linguistic), communication, interpretation, and translation.

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Philosophy of language

Index of language articles

Philosophers|

* Plato (Cratylus)
* Gorgias
* Confucius
* Xunzi
* Aristotle
* Stoics
* Pyrrhonists
* Scholasticism
* Ibn Rushd
* Ibn Khaldun
* Thomas Hobbes
* Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
* Johann Herder
* Ludwig Noiré
* Wilhelm von Humboldt
* Fritz Mauthner
* Paul Ricœur
* Ferdinand de Saussure
* Gottlob Frege
* Franz Boas
* Paul Tillich
* Edward Sapir
* Leonard Bloomfield
* Zhuangzi
* Henri Bergson
* Lev Vygotsky
* Ludwig Wittgenstein
* Philosophical Investigations
* Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
* Bertrand Russell
* Rudolf Carnap
* Jacques Derrida
* Of Grammatology
* Limited Inc
* Benjamin Lee Whorf
* Gustav Bergmann
* J. L. Austin
* Noam Chomsky
* Hans-Georg Gadamer
* Saul Kripke
* A. J. Ayer
* G. E. M. Anscombe
* Jaakko Hintikka
* Michael Dummett
* Donald Davidson
* Roger Gibson
* Paul Grice
* Gilbert Ryle
* P. F. Strawson
* Willard Van Orman Quine
* Hilary Putnam
* David Lewis
* John Searle
* Joxe Azurmendi
* Scott Soames
* Stephen Yablo
* John Hawthorne
* Stephen Neale
* Paul Watzlawick

Theories|

* Causal theory of reference
* Contrast theory of meaning
* Contrastivism
* Conventionalism
* Cratylism
* Deconstruction
* Descriptivism
* Direct reference theory
* Dramatism
* Expressivism
* Linguistic determinism
* Mediated reference theory
* Nominalism
* Non-cognitivism
* Phallogocentrism
* Relevance theory
* Semantic externalism
* Semantic holism
* Structuralism
* Supposition theory
* Symbiosism
* Theological noncognitivism
* Theory of descriptions (Definite description)
* Unilalianism
* Verification theory

Concepts|

* Ambiguity
* Cant
* Linguistic relativity
* Meaning
* Language
* Truth-bearer
* Proposition
* Use–mention distinction
* Concept
* Categories
* Set
* Class
* Family resemblance
* Intension
* Logical form
* Metalanguage
* Mental representation
* Presupposition
* Principle of compositionality
* Property
* Sign
* Sense and reference
* Speech act
* Symbol
* Entity
* Sentence
* Statement
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Related articles|

* Analytic philosophy
* Philosophy of information
* Philosophical logic
* Linguistics
* Pragmatics
* Rhetoric
* Semantics
* Formal semantics
* Semiotics

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## Subcategories

This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.

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* Philosophers of language (209 P)

### A

* Ambiguity (2 C, 30 P)

### E

* Evolution of language (17 P)

### M

* Meaning (philosophy of language) (1 C, 19 P)

### T

* Theories of language (1 C, 28 P)

* Truth (2 C, 38 P)

## Pages in category "Philosophy of language"

The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total.

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* Philosophy:Index of philosophy of language articles
* Philosophy:Modality (natural language)

### A

* Philosophy:Absolute metaphor
* Philosophy:Alphabet of human thought
* The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
* Philosophy:Apoha
* Applicative universal grammar
* Philosophy:Arche-writing
* Philosophy:Autonomy of syntax

### C

* Category mistake
* Code-talker paradox
* Philosophy:Cognitive synonymy
* Philosophy:Concept
* Philosophy:Concept and object
* Philosophy:Concept horse paradox
* Philosophy:Context principle

### D

* Philosophy:Deconstruction
* Philosophy:Denotation
* Philosophy:Dialog act
* Philosophy:Discourse ethics
* Disquotational principle

### E

* Philosophy:Empty name
* English conditional sentences

### F

* Philosophy:Failure to refer
* Philosophy:Felicity (pragmatics)
* Philosophy:Figurae
* Astronomy:Frege's puzzles
* Philosophy:Function and Concept

### G

* Genus–differentia definition

### H

* Astronomy:Hesperus
* Philosophy:Holophrastic indeterminacy

### I

* Philosophy:Indeterminacy
* Philosophy:Indeterminacy of translation
* Indicative conditional
* Philosophy:Inferential role semantics
* Philosophy:Inscrutability of reference

### L

* Philosophy:Modality (linguistics)
* Philosophy:Linguistic relativity
* Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate
* Philosophy:Linguistic turn

### M

* Martian scientist
* Philosophy:Meme
* Philosophy:Mental space
* Philosophy:Modal verb

### N

* Philosophy:Non-rigid designator
* Nonsense

### O

* Philosophy:Ontic
* Philosophy:Ontological commitment
* Philosophy:Opaque context
* Philosophy:Ordinary language philosophy

### P

* Philosophy:Paradigm case argument
* Performative contradiction
* Philosophy:Performative utterance
* Physics:Philosophical interpretation of classical physics
* Philosophy:Polar semiotics
* Philosophy:Polysemy
* Philosophy:Pragmatics
* Philosophy:Predicate (grammar)
* Philosophy:Principle of compositionality
* Philosophy:Problem of religious language
* Proposition
* Prototype theory

### R

* Philosophy:Radical translation
* Ramsey test
* Philosophy:Rhetoric of science

### S

* Philosophy:Scope (formal semantics)
* Philosophy:Searle–Derrida debate
* Philosophy:Secondary reference
* Self-reference
* Semantics of logic
* Philosophy:Sense and reference
* Philosophy:Situation semantics
* Philosophy:Sociology of language
* Philosophy:Structural approach
* Philosophy:Swampman
* Symbol grounding problem
* Philosophy:Syntax

### T

* Philosophy:Term logic

### U

* Philosophy:Unity of the proposition
* Universal grammar
* Philosophy:Universal grinder
* Philosophy:Universal pragmatics

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