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Verificationism — is the view that a statement or question is only legitimate if there is some way to determine whether the statement is true or false, or what the answer to the question is. It is a view mostly closely associated with the logical positivists of… … Wikipedia
Donald Antrim — (born 1958 in Miami, Florida)[citation needed] is an American novelist. His first novel, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, was published in 1993. In 1999 The New Yorker named him as among the twenty best writers under the age of forty.[1]… … Wikipedia
Linguistic meaning — See also Meaning (linguistics). Linguistic meaning is the content carried by the words or signs exchanged by people when communicating through language. Restated, the communication of meaning is the purpose and function of language. A… … Wikipedia
Meaning (philosophy of language) — The nature of meaning, its definition, elements, and types, was discussed by philosophers Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas. According to them meaning is a relationship between two sorts of things: signs and the kinds of things they mean (intend … Wikipedia
Willard Van Orman Quine — Unreferenced|date=August 2007 Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 20th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE image caption = Willard Van Orman Quine name = Willard Van Orman Quine birth = birth date|mf=yes|1908|6|25 death = death… … Wikipedia
Emotivism — (also known as the hurrah/boo theory) is the meta ethical view which claims that: # Ethical sentences do not express propositions. # Instead, ethical sentences express emotional attitudes. [Garner and Rosen, Moral Philosophy , chapter 13 (… … Wikipedia
Theological noncognitivism — is the argument that religious language, and specifically words like God (capitalized), are not cognitively meaningful. Some thinkers propose it as a way to prove the nonexistence of anything named God . It is sometimes considered to be… … Wikipedia
Epistemic theories of truth — In philosophy, epistemic theories of truth are attempts to analyze the notion of truth in terms of epistemic notions such as knowledge, belief, acceptance, verification, justification, and perspective. A variety of such conceptions can be… … Wikipedia
