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, correctness naturally or by arbitrary convention. The debate focuses on, among other topics, the role of the name-giver, the relation between the name and the essence of the thing named, and the correctness of the parts of names as imitating the things that are named.

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Aristotle,subject and predicate). A recurrent topic of interest for Aristotle is linguistic ambiguity, which he takes up in ., . and .. The distinction between linguistic and real definition is set out in the excerpt from .. Finally, Aristotle expands the discussion of language into its poetical and rhetorical dimensions in the excerpts from . and ..

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William of Ockham, works he developed a new semantics for this mental language. This semantics is constrained by his nominalist metaphysics and he paved the way for the . in medieval philosophy that had many influential followers well into the sixteenth century.

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John Buridan,t, for example, gives an account of the supposition of terms in intentional contexts. Buridan’s solution to the Liar paradox is famous and had an impact even on contemporary philosophy of language. Buridan was perhaps the foremost logician of the Middle Ages.

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,Peter d’Ailly,eatment of the so-called insolubles. Like Ockham, he argues for a mental language which is meant to be free from paradoxes and puzzles. All insolubles, hence, arise in spoken and written languages, for Peter.

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Book 2017with a detailed introduction contextualizing the subject, the editors draw out recurring themes, including the origin of language, the role of nature and convention in fixing form and meaning, language acquisition, ideal languages, varieties of meanings, language as a tool, and the nexus of language

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