Titlebook: Language and Empiricism - After the Vienna Circle; Siobhan Chapman Book 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limite

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Ordinary Language Philosophy,on after the Second World War as a result of a growing conviction among many British philosophers that, despite its obvious appeals, logical positivism was ultimately untenable as a philosophical approach. A number of philosophers commented on what was wrong with logical positivism in general, and w

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Speech Acts and Implicatures,in which language was ordinarily used. This conviction developed, at least in part, from his dissatisfaction with the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle. He found there too much eagerness to adopt technical philosophical terminology, too much readiness to dismiss ordinary language as vague, mes

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Interpretation and Preciseness,ver a period of 30 years. For the most part, these investigations were negative or at least open-ended in their conclusions. Naess demonstrated that philosophers had been wrong or over hasty in their pronouncements about ordinary uses of language, and argued that words were often more fluid in their

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Empiricism in Linguistics,rent from each other, but they shared both an underlying dissatisfaction with some aspects of what the Vienna Circle had said about language and an impetus to study it in a more genuinely and justifiably empirical manner. According to the usual, questionable divisions between academic subjects, they

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Introduction,ngly focussed and even unnecessary. Linguists from different traditions are not looking at a single phenomenon and choosing radically different types of data by which to investigate it; they are simply investigating different subjects.

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Speech Acts and Implicatures,ility of ordinary language, he elevated its analysis to the status of a philosophical methodology. A meticulous examination of what native speakers know about a relevant range of vocabulary, ideally conducted collaboratively, was an essential starting point to any philosophical inquiry.

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Empiricism in Linguistics, all belong to the field of philosophy. During the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries, many accounts of how language should be studied have of course been developed in the emergent field of linguistics.