Philosophy Of Language

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5 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Philosophy Of Language.

• Deflationary theory of truth — A family of theories holding that truth talk adds no substantial property beyond assertion, endorsement or semantic equivalence.
• Direct reference theory — A semantic theory on which the contribution of a name or indexical to propositional content is its referent rather than a descriptive sense.
• Phonocentrism — The doctrine or bias that treats speech and sound as more immediate, fundamental or authoritative than writing or signed language.
• Private language argument — Wittgenstein’s argument that a language whose signs refer only to one person’s intrinsically private sensations cannot sustain the public standards required for meaningful rule-following.
• Semantic holism — The view that the meaning of a linguistic expression depends on its relations to a substantially larger language or belief system.