Exam 5: Philosophy of Language, Meaning, and Interpretation

Synthetic statements depend on experience, and their truth can be acknowledged only by means of the experience.

--------------considers the meaning of words themselves and the meaning of word phrases.

According to -----------------, there are only two sources of knowledge: logical reasoning and empirical experience.

According to ----------------Metaphysical statements are not empirically verifiable and are thus meaningless.

---------- was originally the theory and method of interpreting the Bible and other difficult texts.

----------------'s theory that it is only by picturing reality that propositions acquire sense, or meaning.

--------- is the study of signs.

------- is the founder of Semiotics.

-------- is the study of how language is used

-------- refers to its use in particular instances.

---------- refers to the system of rules and conventions which is independent of, and preexists, individual users.

According to ----------human being is the being that itself understands and interprets.

---------- is the collection of rules that govern how words are assembled into meaningful sentences.

----------- statements are a priori and their truth is based on the rules of the language.

------------- proposes a picture theory of language.

----------- is the author of The Blue and Brown Books.

------------ extended Hermeneutics to the interpretation of all human acts and products, including history and the interpretation of a human life

In Tractatus Wittgenstein proposed a -------------- theory of language.

----------- is the author of Philosophical Investigations.

In Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein proposed a -------------- theory of language.