Titlebook: Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language; Primary source texts Margaret Cameron,Benjamin Hill,Robert J. Stainton Book 2017 Sprin

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Plato, In ., Plato deals with the problem of false speech: how is it possible to say what is not? In the “Seventh letter," Plato makes the surprising claim that speech should not be written. Finally, in . Plato’s interlocutors debate whether names, which he takes to have a certain “correctness," have that

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Aristotle,aturalness of meaning by declaring that linguistic meaning is conventional. He set out the so-called semantic triad, setting out the relations between linguistic utterances (and written words), cognition and extramental reality. He identified the basic components of sentences: the name and verb (or

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Stoicism,k to be subsistent, but not fully existent. These linguistic meanings were called ., literally “what is said,” which are indexed to the time of utterance. This genuinely novel account of linguistic meaning is a forerunner to Frege’s notion of the ., or propositional content.

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Sextus Empiricus,igns and signs from recollection. Sextus is motivated by debates over the appropriate methodology to be used in the practice of medicine between the ancient rationalists, who were theory-based, and ancient empiricists, who emphasized the role of experience in inferring from signs both seen and unsee

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Augustine,ne provides a basic taxonomy of signs between those that are natural and those that are given (including conventional signs like linguistic utterances). A sign is what causes something to be known beyond the sign itself, and these teachings formed the basis of Scriptural hermeneutics. In ., Augustin

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Neoplatonists,ntators. These ancient philosophers – the Greek Proclus and Ammonius, and the Latin Boethius – commented on the writings of Plato and Aristotle, and broadly identified themselves as belonging to the Platonic school. Common issues are outlined: (1) whether language is natural or conventional; (2) the