Questions tagged [meaning]
The relationship among signs and the kinds of things they intend, express, or signify; a concept central to semantics which is the study of how meaning comes about.
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Marcus Aurelius' progression in stoic thought
In what is ascribed to be Verse 18, Book V of Marcus Aurelius' Mediations, Marcus writes:
[1] "Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear."
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Which philosophers would argue that hard determinism makes life more purposeful than randomness?
It appears to me that randomness could or could not produce something meaningful but either way hard determinism seems a better bet. Is there a writer who explores this territory?
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Can meaning indeterminately be said to be indeterminate?
James Ross has given several reasons as to why he believes thought (and formal thought especially) is determinate. Among these, and under a formulation put forward by the contemporary philosopher ...
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A refutation of Kripke's Feynman-Gellman case?
McGinn explains Kripke's Feynman-Gellman problem as follows (Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained)
Most people are not experts in physics and will not be able to tell you what Feynman's ...
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In which sense Quine denies that the translated expressions do have a meaning?
Early on Kuhn drew a parallel with Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation (1970a, 202; 1970c, 268). According to the latter, if we are translating one language into another, there are ...
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Does Ricoeur Elaborate His Essay in a Book?
I'm reading "the model of the text : meaningful action considered as a text" in New Literary History by Paul Ricoeur, and I'm wondering if there Ricoeur has a more extended treatment of this elsewhere ...
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Are there contemporary analytic defenders of the view that pattern/meaning is metaphysically fundamental and directly knowable?
Background: Much of philosophy since Kant has taken for granted that our basic experience of reality is structured by our cognitive apparatus, including notably our background conceptual frameworks. ...
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What is meaning if it is not context?
It is often said that "meaning is context".
This is a hollow definition because the context has its own meaning, which is its wider context, and so on until all contexts have been exhausted. ...
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Are there any fancy terms for the "supposed meaning" of the text and the "actual meaning" of the text?
I am currently writing a software requirements document. It is supposed to be modified and updated by the software developers. I would like to categorize the possible changes. To do this, I introduce ...
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What is Derrida's différance?
I am very perplexed by the concept of différance. Is it even a concept at all? I've had some sources saying otherwise. How should I interpret this?
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Are anti-realists faced with a point where they have to take for granted the referential function of words to things that are not words?
Pragmatism is strongly associated with anti-realism, the view that words are meaningful not because they represent a reality independent of the word itself but because of how they are used in a given ...
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For what theories of meaning are ambiguous referents problematic?
Suppose I am talking to an English friend of mine and I say, "Boston is in Massachusetts." Since I am referring to the American city, I consider this sentence to be true. My friend evaluates ...
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Does Kant's scheme for the analytic/synthetic distinction have room for a (degenerate?) further distinction, for "hyperanalytical" knowledge?
Kant can be easily misread (or: I myself easily misread him, for a long time) as claiming that no "existence claims" are analytically knowable. Technically, though, his system has it that (...
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Can a carrier of contradicting thoughts be called hypocrite?
Can a carrier of contradicting thoughts be called hypocrite?
We know when people do/pretend something which he does not believe/poses, we call them hypocrite. Now what will happen if someone does not ...
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How closely is deconstruction tied to the plurality of meaning?
How closely is deconstruction tied to the plurality of meaning?
the instability and plurality of meaning
Derrida on Heidegger:
the break with the horizon of communication as the communication ...
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