The picture theory of language, also known as the picture theory of meaning, is a theory of linguistic reference and meaning articulated by Ludwig Wittgenstein...

rich body of modern work, spearheaded by philosophers like Alfred Tarski and Donald Davidson. (See also Wittgenstein's picture theory of language.) The use...

beginning of two, can be taken to be the relevant parts of Wittgenstein's metaphysical view that he will use to support his picture theory of language. These...

picture theory of language is correct, and it is impossible to represent logical form, then the theory, by trying to say something about how language...

language theory, a picture language is a set of pictures, where a picture is a 2D array of characters over some alphabet. For example, the language L...

language name objects—sentences are combinations of such names. In this picture of language, we find the roots of the following idea: Every word has a meaning...

Rules and Private Language is a 1982 book by philosopher of language Saul Kripke in which he contends that the central argument of Ludwig Wittgenstein's...

operators. Formal language theory Linguistic philosophy Barber, Alex; Stainton, Robert, eds. (2010). Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics...

A language-game (German: Sprachspiel) is a philosophical concept developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, referring to simple examples of language use and the...

Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)...

most important characteristic of which is the focusing of philosophy primarily on the relations between language, language users, and the world. Very different...

Wittgenstein wrote "The main point is the theory of what can be expressed (gesagt) by prop[osition]s – i.e. by language – (and, which comes to the same thing...

involves eschewing philosophical "theories" in favor of close attention to the details of the use of everyday "ordinary" language. Its earliest forms are associated...

reasoning. In this respect, they are a little like pictures in the picture theory of language described by philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. Philip Johnson-Laird...

to debates about the nature of language. One compelling theory about language is that language maps words to ideas, concepts, or representations in each...

number of fields related to mathematical and modal logic, philosophy of language and mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, and recursion theory. Kripke...

A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable form of contact language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing...

Wittgenstein inspired by Hertz's work, extended his picture theory into a picture theory of language in his 1921 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus which influenced...

Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University. Eagleton has published over forty books, but remains best known for Literary Theory: An Introduction...

While Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection had provoked a surge of speculation on the origin of language over a century and a half...

supported the idea of an ideal language built up from atomic statements using logical connectives (see picture theory of meaning and logical atomism)....

many nineteenth century philologists, when discussing language families. The first occurrence of the term family resemblance is found in Arthur Schopenhauer...

of mind, philosophy of action, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and ethics. She was a prominent figure of analytical Thomism, a fellow of...

joke being that according to the picture theory of language Wittgenstein developed in the Tractatus, the concept of "truth" does not exist. The last line...

of the British Academy 36 (1950): 51–68.] Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science (1953) Theory of Games...

An early conception of what would later become known as language-games is present in the text, which represents the first period of Wittgenstein's thought...

dual-coding theory is a basis of picture superiority effect. Paivio claims that pictures have advantages over words with regards to coding and retrieval of stored...

attention to the language games involved, Wittgenstein considers Goethe's propositions in the Theory of Colours, and the observations of Philipp Otto Runge...

beginnings of a departure from the ideal language philosophy and correspondence theory of truth of the Tractatus. During the two terms of 1938/9 Wittgenstein...

gestures. Wittgenstein also notes that we seldom use these words in everyday language to make aesthetic judgments, but rather use words like "right" ("richtig")...