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Article #208Theories of meaning without formal logic
From: Jacob Galley
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 00:59
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 00:59
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Can anyone direct me toward any viable theories of meaning that do not postulate that some kind of truth functional logic is at the foundation of meaning? Is psychologism (mid-1800s: Fries, Beneke, J.S. Mill) worth perusing? All I know of this school so far is from _The Encyclopedia of Philosophy_ (Macmillan, 1967): ". . . The only instrument philosophical inquiry has at its disposal is self-observation (or introspection) and . . . there is no way to establish any truth other than by reducing it to the subjective elements of self-observation." Are there any overviews of psychologism from a modern (cognitive) perspective? Is phenomenology worth perusing in this context?? Jake. PS - I support the creation of sci.philosophy.lang! -- "What's so interdisciplinary about studying lower levels of thought process?" <-- Jacob Galley / gal2@midway.uchicago.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.centerline.com!noc.near.net!hri.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!ellis!gal2 From: gal2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Jacob Galley) Newsgroups: sci.cognitive,sci.philosophy.tech,sci.lang Subject: Theories of meaning without formal logic Message-ID: <1992Nov9.005957.7189@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 9 Nov 92 00:59:57 GMT Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Reply-To: gal2@midway.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations Lines: 24