Ideal language philosophy

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Early philosophy

* Picture theory of language
* Truth tables
* Truth conditions
* Truth functions
* State of affairs
* Logical necessity

Later philosophy

* Meaning as use
* Language-game
* Private language argument
* Family resemblance
* Ideal language analysis
* Rule-following
* Form of life
* Anti-skepticism
* Philosophy of mathematics

Movements

* Analytic philosophy
* Linguistic turn
* Ideal language philosophy
* Logical atomism
* Pyrrhonian skepticism
* Ordinary language philosophy
* Fideism
* Quietism
* Therapeutic approach
* Postanalytic philosophy

Works

* Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
* "Some Remarks on Logical Form"
* Blue and Brown Books
* Philosophical Remarks
* Philosophical Investigations
* On Certainty
* Culture and Value
* Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough
* Remarks on the
Foundations of Mathematics

* Zettel
* Remarks on Colour
* Lectures and Conversations on
Aesthetics, Psychology
and Religious Belief

People

* Bertrand Russell
* G. E. Moore
* John Maynard Keynes
* Paul Engelmann
* Friedrich Waismann
* Moritz Schlick
* Rudolf Carnap
* Francis Skinner
* Frank Ramsey
* Vienna Circle
* G. E. M. Anscombe
* Norman Malcolm
* Rush Rhees
* Peter Winch
* Peter Geach
* G. H. von Wright

Interpreters

* G. E. M. Anscombe
* Gordon Baker
* Stanley Cavell
* James F. Conant
* Alice Crary
* Cora Diamond
* Terry Eagleton
* Juliet Floyd
* A. C. Grayling
* Peter Hacker
* Oswald Hanfling
* Cressida Heyes
* Jaakko Hintikka
* Anthony Kenny
* Saul Kripke
* Warren Goldfarb
* Sandra Laugier
* Sabina Lovibond
* Norman Malcolm
* John McDowell
* Stephen Mulhall
* Colin McGinn
* Marie McGinn
* D. Z. Phillips
* Rupert Read
* Constantine Sandis
* Barry Stroud
* Stephen Toulmin
* Michael Williams
* Peter Winch
* John Wisdom
* Crispin Wright
* Hans Sluga

Other topics

* Cambridge Apostles
* Cambridge University
Moral Sciences Club

* New Wittgenstein
* Stonborough House

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Ideal language philosophy is contrasted with ordinary language philosophy. From about 1910 to 1930, analytic philosophers like Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein emphasized creating an ideal language for philosophical analysis, which would be free from the ambiguities of natural language that, in their opinion, often made for philosophical error. During this phase, Russell and Wittgenstein sought to understand language (and hence philosophical problems) by using formal logic to formalize the way in which philosophical statements are made. Wittgenstein developed a comprehensive system of logical atomism in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (German: Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung, 1921). He thereby argued that the universe is the totality of facts and not things: actual states of affairs and that these states of affairs can be expressed by the language of first-order predicate logic. Thus a picture of the universe can be construed by means of expressing atomic facts in the form of atomic propositions, and linking them using logical operators.

## See also

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* Formal language theory

## References

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* Barber, Alex; Stainton, Robert, eds. (2010). Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Elsevier. p. 47\. ISBN 978-0-08-096500-0. OCLC 377840723.
* Moore, A. W. (2012). The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 230, 242, 224–54. ISBN 978-1-139-02922-3. OCLC 778278812.

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