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Theory in philosophy of language
A direct reference theory (also called referentialism or referential realism) is a theory of language that claims that the meaning of a word or expression
Direct_reference_theory
stands opposed to direct reference theory. Gottlob Frege is a well-known advocate of mediated reference theories. Similar theories were widely held in
Mediated_reference_theory
Theory that terms acquire referents via a chain of usage events
causal theory of reference or historical chain theory of reference is a theory of how terms acquire specific referents based on evidence. Such theories have
Causal_theory_of_reference
descended from the use theory of meaning, and has been most notably defended by Wilfrid Sellars and Robert Brandom. The direct reference theory of meaning, the
Philosophy_of_language
Name which is taken to uniquely identify its referent in the world
to the specific referent within that community. Today[vague] a direct reference theory is common, which holds that proper names refer to their referents
Proper_name_(philosophy)
Philosophical conception of meaning
direct-reference theories debate whether the meaning of a name is an exhaustive description of the named entity, or whether names establish a direct connection
Meaning_(philosophy)
Distinction in the philosophy of language
Definite description Direct and indirect realism Frege's puzzles Intensional logic Mediated reference theory Temperature paradox Theories of language Use–mention
Sense_and_reference
Theory in philosophy of language
the philosophy of language, the descriptivist theory of proper names (also descriptivist theory of reference) is the view that the meaning or semantic content
Descriptivist_theory_of_names
American philosopher
Graduate Center from 2009 to 2012. Salmón is a proponent of the theory of direct reference. In his books, Frege's Puzzle and Content, Cognition, and Communication
Nathan_Salmón
Philosophical theory by Bertrand Russell
The theory of descriptions is the philosopher Bertrand Russell's most significant contribution to the philosophy of language. It is also known as Russell's
Theory_of_descriptions
Approach to understanding the relationship between text and meaning
hymen, gram, spacing).[jargon][further explanation needed] Derrida's theories on deconstruction were influenced by the work of linguists such as Ferdinand
Deconstruction
American philosopher and logician (1940–2022)
mediated reference theory, the inconsistency of belief contexts involving coreferring names cannot be taken as evidence against his direct reference theory of
Saul_Kripke
Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath (384–322 BC)
Renaissance, and was not replaced systematically until the Enlightenment and theories such as classical mechanics were developed. He influenced Judeo-Islamic
Aristotle
Entity whose presence indicates the probable existence of something else
Hellenistic theories of signs. Among the mainstream in the theories of signs, i.e., that of Aristotle and that of Stoics, the former theory filtered into
Sign
Study of meaning in language
all possible worlds. Ideational theories, also called mentalist theories, are not primarily interested in the reference of expressions and instead explain
Semantics
English philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
During these formative years, he began the investigations into logic and set theory that would eventually lead to his work on logicism and his collaboration
Bertrand_Russell
French philosopher (1859–1941)
read Darwin and gave a course on his theories. Although Bergson had previously endorsed Lamarckism and its theory of the heritability of acquired characteristics
Henri_Bergson
Scientific study of language
of interpretation Integrational linguistics – Theory of language Integrationism – Approach in the theory of communication Interlinguistics – Subfield of
Linguistics
Fundamental unit of cognition
number, and space. Theories of concept individuation discuss the conditions under which two concepts are identical. Reference-based theories focus on extensions
Concept
Economic theory by Terry Pratchett
The Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness, often called simply the boots theory, is an economic theory that people in poverty have to buy cheap
Boots_theory
Words expressing a complete thought
simplexes. See also copula for the consequences of the verb to be on the theory of sentence structure. One scheme for classifying English sentences is by
Sentence_(linguistics)
Hypothetical internal cognitive symbol that represents external reality
and experimental psychology. In contrast to theories of naïve or direct realism, the representational theory of mind postulates the actual existence of
Mental_representation
Branch of medieval logic
Supposition theory was a branch of medieval logic that was probably aimed at giving accounts of issues similar to modern accounts of reference, plurality
Supposition_theory
Hypothesis of language influencing thought
never formally advanced any such hypothesis. A strong version of relativist theory was developed from the late 1920s by the German linguist Leo Weisgerber
Linguistic_relativity
Bearer of truth values
aspects rather than a failure of reference. His student Aristotle (384–322 BCE) formulated the correspondence theory of truth. He developed a logical
Proposition
Utterance that serves a performative function
resigning, apologising or dismissing, not simply to describe it. Speech-act theory therefore treats speaking a language as a kind of rule-governed social behaviour
Speech_act
Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist (born 1966)
the reference of natural kind terms. The kind of theory of reference that is advocated by Kripke and Putnam is called the direct reference theory. Chalmers
David_Chalmers
English philosopher and political theorist (1588–1679)
Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy
Thomas_Hobbes
German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)
between the sense and reference (Sinn und Bedeutung) of names and other expressions, sometimes said to involve a mediated reference theory. As a philosopher
Gottlob_Frege
Soviet psychologist (1896–1934)
children and creating the framework known as cultural-historical activity theory. After his early death, his books and research were banned in the Soviet
Lev_Vygotsky
System of names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences
2007-10-06. Pavlinov, Igor Ya (2022). Taxonomic Nomenclature. What’s in a Name – Theory and History. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN 9781032015071 Nomenclature
Nomenclature
Theory of interwoven space and time by Albert Einstein
the theory is presented as being based on just two postulates: The laws of physics are invariant (identical) in all inertial frames of reference (that
Special_relativity
1921 philosophical work by Ludwig Wittgenstein
out in the Tractatus is the picture theory, sometimes called the picture theory of language. The picture theory is a proposed explanation of the capacity
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus
American philosopher and logician (1908–2000)
(1971). The Roots of Reference. Open Court Publishing Company ISBN 0-8126-9101-6 (developed from Quine's Carus Lectures). 1981. Theories and Things. Harvard
Willard_Van_Orman_Quine
20th-century tradition of Western philosophy
Barcan Marcus also challenged descriptivism with a direct reference theory, in her case a tag theory of names. Keith Donnellan too challenged descriptivism
Analytic_philosophy
German polymath (1646–1716)
way, Leibniz's theory of perception can be viewed as one of many theories leading up to the idea of the unconscious. Leibniz was a direct influence on Ernst
Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz
Philosophy emphasizing names and labels
universals do exist over and above particulars, and to the hylomorphic substance theory of Aristotle, which asserts that universals are immanently real within them;
Nominalism
Theory of behavioral economics
theory is a theory of behavioral economics, judgment and decision making that was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. The theory was
Prospect_theory
Branch of linguistics and semiotics relating context to meaning
upon definite descriptions and referent accessibility. Theories have been presented for why direct referent descriptions occur in discourse. (In layman's
Pragmatics
Term with invariant possible designations
water is necessarily H2O. Causal theory of reference Class versus instance Counterpart theory Direct reference theory Non-rigid designator Vivid designator
Rigid_designator
British philosopher of language (1913–1988)
Grice, or Paul Grice, was a British philosopher of language who created the theory of implicature and the cooperative principle (with its namesake Gricean
Paul_Grice
Movement in Western philosophy
concept of theory-ladenness. Hanson and Thomas Kuhn held that even direct observations are never truly neutral in that they are laden with theory, i.e. influenced
Logical_positivism
German-American philosopher (1891–1970)
attended the University of Jena, where he wrote a thesis defining an axiomatic theory of space and time. The physics department said it was too philosophical
Rudolf_Carnap
Structured system of communication
its structures are best analyzed and understood by reference to their functions. Formal theories of grammar seek to define the different elements of
Language
American philosopher (1932–2025)
prominently uses the notion of the "illocutionary point". Searle's speech-act theory has been challenged by several thinkers in various ways. Collections of
John_Searle
American mathematician and philosopher (1926–2016)
Saul Kripke and others, he developed the causal theory of reference, and formulated an original theory of meaning, introducing the notion of semantic externalism
Hilary_Putnam
French philosopher (1930–2004)
effect that I have elsewhere called logocentrism. Derrida had a direct impact on the theories and practices of influential architects Peter Eisenman and Bernard
Jacques_Derrida
Approach to semantics in analytic philosophy
approach to semantics in analytic philosophy. It is a theory of how to determine the sense and reference of a word and the truth-value of a sentence. It is
Two-dimensionalism
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
who both drew direct inspiration from their reading of the 1878 Mémoire. Saussure had a major impact on the development of linguistic theory in the first
Ferdinand_de_Saussure
theory of reference Contrast theory of meaning Contrastivism Conventionalism Cratylism Deconstruction Descriptivist theory of names Direct reference theory
Outline_of_philosophy
American philosopher (1917–2003)
particularly in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and action theory. Most of Davidson's influence was on analytic philosophy, his tradition
Donald_Davidson_(philosopher)
Intellectual current and methodological approach in the social science
literary theory. Jakobson was a decisive influence on anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, by whose work the term structuralism first appeared in reference to
Structuralism
1953 work by Ludwig Wittgenstein
is that meaning is use. According to the use theory of meaning, the words are not defined by reference to the objects they designate or by the mental
Philosophical_Investigations
American philosopher (1916–1999)
Word and Object (1960). In this regard, he defended the direct attribution theory of reference in The First Person (1981). He argues that we refer to things
Roderick_Chisholm
Art of persuasion
"Educational Theory as Theory of Culture: A Vichian perspective on the educational theories of John Dewey and Kieran Egan". Educational Philosophy and Theory. 37
Rhetoric
German philosopher (1900–2002)
1994. Literature and Philosophy in Dialogue: Essays in German Literary Theory. Trans. Robert H. Paslick. New York: SUNY Press, 1993. Philosophical Apprenticeships
Hans-Georg_Gadamer
American linguist (1897–1941)
reevaluating his ideas and engaging in a more in-depth understanding of his theories. The field of linguistic relativity remains an active area of research
Benjamin_Lee_Whorf
American philosopher (born 1945)
(2002). He is also a major critic of two-dimensionalist theories of semantics—see his Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism (2005)
Scott_Soames
Idea of language as the principal framework in dictating human thought
enforces – while linguistic relativity is perceived as a weaker form of the theory because language is discussed as a lens through which life can be focused
Linguistic_determinism
The Big Bang Theory always start with "The" and resemble the name of a scientific principle, theory or experiment, whimsically referencing a plot point
List of The Big Bang Theory episodes
List_of_The_Big_Bang_Theory_episodes
Puzzles about the semantics of proper names
attempted to work out a solution to the puzzle within the confines of direct-reference theories of proper names. Some of these philosophers include Nathan Salmon
Frege's_puzzles
up Appendix:Glossary of graph theory in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. This is a glossary of graph theory. Graph theory is the study of graphs, systems
Glossary_of_graph_theory
Distinction between using a word and mentioning it
is not explained in these terms. Wilson, Shomir (2011). "A Computational Theory of the Use-Mention Distinction in Natural Language". PhD Dissertation, University
Use–mention_distinction
Sentence, idea or formula that refers to itself
Indirect self-reference describes an object referring to itself indirectly. For example, "this sentence is false." contains a direct self-reference, in which
Self-reference
Directed graph with no directed cycles
mathematics, particularly graph theory, and computer science, a directed acyclic graph (DAG) is a directed graph with no directed cycles. That is, it consists
Directed_acyclic_graph
Canadian-born American philosopher
negates P ↔ ¬ P {\displaystyle P\leftrightarrow \neg P} . So no consistent theory proves that one of its propositions equivalent to its own negation. Metalogically
Stephen_Yablo
Algebraic structure formed from a collection of algebraic structures
and coproducts agree, and the direct sum is either of them: cf. biproduct. More generally, in category theory the direct sum is often but not always the
Direct_sum
English philosopher (1911–1960)
proponent of ordinary language philosophy, best known for developing the theory of speech acts. Austin pointed out that we use language to do things as
J._L._Austin
German philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)
understanding of many German theories of the time; however Herder understood and feared the extremes to which his folk-theory could tend, and so issued specific
Johann_Gottfried_Herder
American philosopher
(Synthese, 1961) and elsewhere). According to her tag theory of names (a direct reference theory), these "tags" are used to refer to an object, which is
Ruth_Barcan_Marcus
American philosopher (1941–2001)
a competing account from Robert Stalnaker; together the Stalnaker–Lewis theory of counterfactuals has become perhaps the most pervasive and influential
David_Lewis_(philosopher)
Philosophical belief that principles depend on societal agreements, not external reality
the content of a theory; doubting the reliability of the experimenter; declaring that the observations that threaten the tested theory are irrelevant;
Conventionalism
Study of the semantics, or interpretations, of formal and natural languages
is Alfred Tarski's semantic theory of truth, based on his T-schema, and is one of the founding concepts of model theory. This is the most widespread
Semantics_(logic)
Concept in the philosophy of language
strictly speaking, no meaning. This is the so-called direct-reference theory. Versions of this theory have been defended by Keith Donnellan, David Kaplan
Empty_name
Precisely specified semantic version of a statement
the schemata or inferential structure of the argument. In argumentation theory or informal logic, an argument form is sometimes seen as a broader notion
Logical_form
English philosopher (1919–2006)
with his article "On Referring" (1950), a criticism of Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions (see also Definite descriptions) that Russell explained
P._F._Strawson
Attraction of masses and energy
weaker as objects get farther away. Gravity is described by the general theory of relativity, proposed by Albert Einstein in 1915, which describes gravity
Gravity
Meta-ethical theory
In meta-ethics, expressivism is a theory about the meaning of moral language. According to expressivism, sentences that employ moral terms – for example
Expressivism
Falsifiable explanation of natural phenomena
A scientific theory is an explanation of an aspect of the natural world that can be or that has been repeatedly tested and has corroborating evidence in
Scientific_theory
Computational quantum mechanical modelling method to investigate electronic structure
of the density. In a perturbation theory approach the direct correlation function is given by the sum of the direct correlation in a known system such
Density_functional_theory
Conspiracy theory about race and culture
due to using language and imagery that direct viewers to the conspiracy theory without explicitly referencing it. He said, "[The videos] are dangerous
Great Replacement conspiracy theory
Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory
Cross-border investment giving a foreign investor lasting control of an enterprise
the neoclassical theories: foreign direct investment is not limited to investment of excess profits abroad. In fact, foreign direct investment can be
Foreign_direct_investment
English philosopher and author (1806–1873)
Encyclopedia describes Mill as occasionally coming "close to socialism, a theory repugnant to his predecessors". He was a proponent of the utilitarianism
John_Stuart_Mill
British philosopher (born 1958)
the Times Literary Supplement against charges that Kripke's new theory of reference had plagiarized work by Ruth Barcan Marcus. Descriptions MIT Press
Stephen_Neale
Analytical philosophical view expounded by Bertrand Russell
discussions of J. O. Urmson's work on analysis. The name for this kind of theory was coined in March 1911 by Russell, in a work published in French titled
Logical_atomism
Entities that are said to be either true or false
that some things are true while others are false has led to different theories about the nature of these entities. Since there is divergence of opinion
Truth-bearer
View on the purpose of philosophy
The objective of quietism is to show that philosophical positions or theories cannot solve problems, settle debates or advance knowledge. It is often
Quietism_(philosophy)
Branch of engineering and mathematics
development of PID control theory by Nicolas Minorsky. Although the most direct application of mathematical control theory is its use in control systems
Control_theory
American television sitcom (2007–2019)
The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady for CBS. It aired from September 24, 2007, to May 16, 2019,
The_Big_Bang_Theory
replacement" and have referenced the concept of "Great Replacement", Camus's conspiracy theory (often called "replacement theory" or "population replacement")
White genocide conspiracy theory
White_genocide_conspiracy_theory
Proposed constructs pertaining to the vagus nerve
Polyvagal theory (PVT) is a collection of proposed evolutionary, neuroscientific, and psychological constructs pertaining to the role of the vagus nerve
Polyvagal_theory
British philosopher (1925–2011)
already been studied by Kurt Gödel: the Gödel–Dummett logic. In voting theory, he devised the Quota Borda system of proportional voting, based on the
Michael_Dummett
Denoting phrase in the form of "the X"
Stephen Neale, among others, has defended Russell's theory, and incorporated it into the theory of generalized quantifiers. On this view, 'the' is a
Definite_description
Method for creating waveforms
Direct digital synthesis (DDS) is a method employed by frequency synthesizers to create arbitrary waveforms from a single, fixed-frequency reference clock
Direct_digital_synthesis
German-born American anthropologist (1858–1942)
the Bureau of American Ethnology, directed by John Wesley Powell, a geologist who favored Lewis Henry Morgan's theory of cultural evolution. The BAE was
Franz_Boas
Organization of mental concepts
various theories for how humans learn categories. Prevailing theories of category learning include the prototype theory, the exemplar theory, and the
Cognitive_categorization
philosophical studies of human nature or endowment is outlined in the theories of medieval philosophers on human evolution such as; Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Endowment_(philosophy)
Theory that discusses human intelligence from an epistemological perspective
classrooms and "open education" are direct applications of Piaget's views. Despite its huge success, Piaget's theory has some limitations that Piaget recognised
Piaget's theory of cognitive development
Piaget's_theory_of_cognitive_development
Electromagnetic radiation humans can see
his theory in his Opticks of 1704. His reputation helped the particle theory of light to hold sway during the eighteenth century. The particle theory of
Light
Form of democracy
which occurs in the majority of established democracies. The theory and practice of direct democracy and participation as its common characteristic constituted
Direct_democracy
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