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	Analytic philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Logic and philosophy of language were central strands of analytic philosophy from the beginning, although this dominance has diminished greatly.
		Language is the principal—or perhaps the only—tool of the philosopher.
		Ordinary language philosophy was often used to disperse philosophical problems, by exposing them as results of fundamental misunderstandings regarding the ordinary usage of the pertinent lingusitic terms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Analytic_philosophy (2258 words)

	Language Log: Ordinary language philosophy of language: not a good idea
		Maybe ordinary language philosophy is faintly plausible for some areas (it did not really survive; it was already under attack by the 1960s); but it seems to me that it would be particularly ridiculous when applied to the philosophy of language itself.
		The folk wisdom about language that seems to be embedded in English, the phrases that the general public uses to talk about language, suggest that philosophy of language done by mapping out the geography of the conceptual schemes revealed in the way we ordinarily talk about language use would be a complete crock.
		The theory of language that seems to be implicit in everyday English is disastrously naive and stupid, and if elevated to philosophical dogma through ordinary language philosophy it would have reduced the philosophy of language to absurdity.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000297.html (701 words)

	Frege and Language [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		His interest in the philosophy of language was based on his firm belief that language is necessary for human thought, and it was triggered in particular by his investigations into the foundations of mathematics, in which he faced a serious problem concerning the symbolic tools that were available at the time for such investigations.
		However, the formula language of arithmetic, in which numbers and their relations are expressed, did not contain expressions for specifically logical relations; and ordinary language proved to be insufficiently transparent with regard to the discovery of logical relations – especially logical consequence – to serve Frege's purposes well.
		For Frege, the logician's main goal in her struggle with language is to "separate the logical from the psychological;" that is, the logician's main goal in her struggle with language is to isolate the logically relevant aspects of grammar and meaning from those that are not.
	www.iep.utm.edu /f/freg-lan.htm (15446 words)

	Ebersole on Ordinary Language Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Ordinary language philosophy" is taken to be the philosophy that evolves from the belief that a careful consideration of some features of ordinary or everyday language can shed light on many philosophical problems.
		"Ordinary" came to be the word used, understood in opposition to the symbolic "language" introduced by Wittenstein in the Tractatus, and widely adopted as the ideal form for giving a philosophical "analysis".
		The critic of OLP will say: the fact that the OLPr translates the question into the formal mode in English shows that he assumes English is an ontologically proper language, and before he has the right to go on, he must show that English is indeed an ontologically satisfactory language.
	faculty.frostburg.edu /phil/forum/OLP.htm (2235 words)

	Wittgenstein's Legacy: Metagrammar, Meaning, and Ordinary Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wittgenstein's later philosophy suggests, rather, that we judge statements as true or false using criteria embedded in particular language practices that are in turn geared on to specific situations of use (cf.
		Indeed, ordinary language philosophers insist on the non-equivalence of language games that might appear to be inter-translatable prima facie, but that on closer inspection prove to be anchored in incommensurate norms and conventions, different forms of life.
		In this context, theorists of "ordinary language" disputed the view that a logically purified metalanguage was necessary for the purposes of logico-philosophical analysis--for example, to obviate ambiguous expressions, and attendant paradoxes and antinomies (e.g., Every sentence that I write is a lie), found in natural languages (Carnap).
	www3.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/current.issue/16.1herman.html (3713 words)

	Language, philosophy of : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
		Philosophical interest in language, while ancient and enduring (see Language, ancient philosophy of; Language, medieval theories of; Language, Renaissance philosophy of; Language, early modern philosophy of), has blossomed anew in the past century.
		Theorists of language focus on the Mind/Language connection when they consider understanding to be the cornerstone concept, holding, for instance, that an account of meaning for a given language is simply an account of what constitutes the ability to understand it (see Meaning and understanding).
		Tools from the philosophy of language make available quite a number of views about what these statements mean and in general about how they do their expressive and communicative work; and these views inform and support philosophical positions on the real objects of philosophical interest.
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/U017#U017P1.1 (1907 words)

	Ordinary Language Distinction: Philosophy Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And into the philosophy that is supposed to be about affirming truths and clarity, to boot.
		There is technical language; there is the language of mathematics; there is professional jargon; there is dialect; there is pidgin English....and, of course, last but not least, there is Derridian.
		Such synthetic languages are deliberately created for specific purposes, just as birds have their own mating calls and distinctive local accents, but will make a bit of more or less random chatter as well.
	forums.philosophyforums.com /comments.php?id=2905&page=last (588 words)

	Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language Philosophy
		Therefore, ordinary language is the language we dwell by.
		The same word for ordinary appears in §132, and later in §402 applied not to ordinary life, but to ordinary language and ordinary linguistic forms.
		In this sense, all language is common (under the traditional interpretation of the private language argument), even though not all language is everyday language.
	www.filosoficas.unam.mx /~abarcelo/texts/alltaeglich.html (1187 words)

	The Strange Death of Ordinary Language Philosophy
		Philosophy supplies "remarks on the natural history of human beings" (Wittgenstein 1953: §415); on a set of features that is found in every culture and every human form of life, and is not "limited by the form of life in which it occurs," as Gellner would have us believe.
		They saw in language a sublime mystery tied intimately to thought, the presence of which in men distinguished them from animals; Wittgenstein maintained that, on the contrary, the use of language wasn’t basically anything but a complicated form of behaviour that should be examined like other forms of behaviour, successful or not, adapted or not.
		What is binding is not ordinary beliefs, but the ordinary language in which they are expressed; and it is not binding because the common man is normative for the theorist, but because the ordinary language is also the theorist’s own.
	www.helsinki.fi /~tuschano/writings/strange (18083 words)

	Essays in Philosophy
		It has become commonplace to speak of ordinary language philosophy as though this were a readily identifiable school of thought, but this betokens a failure to discern fundamental differences among the philosophers who are lumped together under this label, some of whom do and some of whom do not have affinities to Moore.
		An indication that such context-focused accounts are indeed thought to be characteristic of some kinds of ordinary language philosophy is the fact that several philosophers have attacked the accounts as though they are central to ordinary language philosophy.
		Cook does describe practitioners of Investigative Ordinary Language Philosophy as people who are interested in such things as "who is speaking to whom, to what purpose, and with what awareness or knowledge." But he doesn’t really focus on the long-time philosophical interest in correct accounts of philosophically important words.
	www.humboldt.edu /~essays/paper6.html (6514 words)

	Philosophy of Language
		Philosophy of language was considered by many to be the new "first philosophy." As a distinct sub-discipline, it really came of age in the 1960's and early 1970's.
		-century philosophy; and the influence of his work on language was being strongly felt by this time.
		(3) Although the earlier "linguistic philosophy" (both ordinary language philosophy and logical constructivism) had come under attack, during this period the strong points of these movements were combined: logical theory was brought to bear on ordinary language, with the aim of understanding it rather than merely reforming it.
	www.uta.edu /philosophy/faculty/bradshaw/3321.html (639 words)

	Leiter Reports: Language in Philosophy
		Often, they appealed to "ordinary use", without any sense of the distinction between what was part of the linguistically determined truth-conditions of an utterance and what was merely implicated as a function of general conversational maxims.
		First, instead of appealing to ordinary use, the new sort of philosopher of language appeals to facts about linguistic structure, fully informed by all the progress linguists, logicians, and philosophers have made in understanding language over the last forty years.
		If, for example, your philosophical view predicts that "is valuable" is not an ordinary predication, or "knows how to ride a bicycle" is linguistically quite different from "knows who to call in case of a fire", or that knowledge claims are context-sensitive, that's something we can now evaluate.
	leiterreports.typepad.com /blog/2004/11/language_in_phi.html (957 words)

	Ordinary Language Philosophy
		Although their individual interests differed, all shared the commitment to careful analysis of ordinary language and the confidence that this method would tend to dissolve traditional philosophical problems.
		Although traditional language divides the inner (mental and non-spatial) aspect of human life from the outer (bodily and spatial) aspect, he noted, efforts to describe the inner life invariably appeal to the language and models of bodily motion and interaction.
		Another target of Austin's discriminating analysis of ordinary language was the philosophical account of perception in terms of sense-data.
	www.philosophypages.com /hy/6u.htm (1259 words)

	20th Century Anglo-American Philosophy
		The rise of the analytic tradition in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy represents a turn toward common sense, science, language, logic and rigor.
		In that century, analytic philosophy became the dominant way that philosophy was done in English-speaking countries, and it remains the dominant style today.
		Analytic philosophy was born out of revolt against the influence of the 19th century philosophers Hegel and Nietzsche and their opaque, bizarre, vague, and speculative methods of doing philosophy.
	www.csus.edu /indiv/d/dowdenb/176/176-s03.htm (847 words)

	ipedia.com: Ordinary language philosophy Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From England came the idea that philosophy has got into trouble, by trying to understand words outside of the context of their use in ordinary language.
		Ordinary Language philosophy would instead look at how we use the word "reality." (Note: Willful oversimplification follows...) We say, "In reality...", but we don't mean that there is some special dimension of being.
		Important names in the Ordinary Language school include: Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Wisdom, Gilbert Ryle, J.L. Austin and Peter Strawson.
	www.ipedia.com /ordinary_language_philosophy.html (660 words)

	Joho the Blog: Ordinary Language Digital ID
		Ordinary Language Digital ID I've just published a new issue of my newsletter, JOHO.
		It consists of a single article that tries to apply the ordinary language sense of ID to the Net:
		It seems to me that we might rephrase your objections to Kurzweil back then in the language of this post and the one it references by saying that strong AI can only hope to mimic a specific identity of someone not the actual self.
	www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/002595.html (1151 words)

	Philosophy and Ordinary Language - Oswald Hanfling - Microsoft Reader eBook
		Philosophy and Ordinary Language is a defence of the view that philosophy is largely about questions of language, which to a large extent means ordinary language.
		Some people argue that if philosophy is about ordinary language, then it is necessarily less deep and difficult than it is usually taken to be but Oswald Hanfling shows us that this isn't true.
		Hanfling, a leading expert in the development of analytic philosophy, covers a wide range of topics, including scepticism and the definition of knowledge, free will, empiricism, folk psychology, ordinary versus artificial logic, and philosophy versus science.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/72669-ebook.htm (786 words)

	PES Yearbook: 1999: Robert H. Ennis
		Such a compass, if so set, would not be a reliable compass in the ordinary sense of "reliable," even though it would be thoroughly consistent, and thus reliable in the psychometric sense.
		In this essay I have exhibited discrepancies between the ordinary meanings and the psychometric meanings of the terms "reliability," "true score," and "error of measurement." The discrepancies are known in the field of psychometrics, and the discrepancy for at least "reliability," the most serious one, is also known among most educational researchers.
		In presenting this essay, I hope in addition to have successfully exemplified the sort of thing that ultimately many ordinary language philosophers of the fifties, sixties, and seventies were trying to do: eliminate confusion and consequent problems by focusing on the ordinary meaning of crucial terms.
	www.ed.uiuc.edu /EPS/PES-yearbook/1999/ennis_body.asp (2833 words)

	Amazon.com: Metaphysics in Ordinary Language: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Running through them are Rosen's beliefs that philosophical problems arise in the context of ordinary life and that, because we are historical beings, we should see philosophical theorizing historically.
		He discusses, among other topics, philosophy and ordinary experience; reason, freedom, and modernity; and Plato, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein.
		Rosen (philosophy, Boston Univ.) writes about "nothing" as though logical empiricism, modern logic, and Paul Edwards's Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on that subject never existed; and his remarks on what "deep" means in terms of mathematics seem like a bad joke.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300074786?v=glance (516 words)

	Ordinary Language Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He also attacks the broader idea that words, sentence, meanings, should be subject to precise definition.
		How can a piece of language be usable even though it doesn’t have a precise meaning?
		Second, it may not have a meaning (a core definition, even an imprecise one) at all.
	zillion.philosophy.arizona.edu /~Twentieth/t11-3-4.html (288 words)

	Ordinary-language philosophy books, find the lowest prices
		Philosophy and Ordinary Language : The Bent and Genius of Our Tongue
		The Elusiveness of the Ordinary : Studies in the Possibility of Philosophy
		Austin : A Critique of Ordinary Language Philosophy
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	Philosophy and Ordinary Language - Oswald Hanfling - Microsoft Reader eBook
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		Anyone wishing to gain a better understanding of the philosophy of language, and the nature of ordinary language in philosophy should read this book.
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	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/129515-ebook.htm (686 words)

	J. L. Austin : A Critique of Ordinary Language Philosophy
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