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	Encyclopedia: The verifiability theory of meaning
		In the early twentieth century, the logical positivists put forth what came to be known as the verifiability theory of meaning.
		The verifiability theory was based upon the verifiability principle, which states that for a statement to have meaning, the statement must be empirically verifiable.
		The verifiability theory of meaning is also closely related to the correspondence theory of truth.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-verifiability-theory-of-meaning (317 words)

	Chapter 1. Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions. Einstein, Albert. 1920. Relativity: The Special and General ...
		By reason of your past experience, you would certainly regard every one with disdain who should pronounce even the most out-of-the-way proposition of this science to be untrue.
		But perhaps this feeling of proud certainty would leave you immediately if some one were to ask you: “What, then, do you mean by the assertion that these propositions are true?” Let us proceed to give this question a little consideration.
		For the present we shall assume the “truth” of the geometrical propositions, then at a later stage (in the general theory of relativity) we shall see that this “truth” is limited, and we shall consider the extent of its limitation.
	www.bartleby.com /173/1.html (624 words)

	Michael Dummett [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Justifying a semantic theory by means of a meaning-theory
		In a semantic theory, every simple expression is assigned a semantic value, and the semantic value of a complex expression is determined by the semantic value of the simple expressions from which it is composed.
		Dummett is by no means alone in seeking for such a theory: in particular, there is a certain amount of overlap between Dummett's thinking and that of Donald Davidson, although it would be well beyond the scope of this article to examine the similarities and differences between these two thinkers in detail.
	www.iep.utm.edu /d/dummett.htm (8674 words)

	Category theory Details, Meaning Category theory Article and Explanation Guide
		The subsequent development of the theory was powered first by the computational needs of homological algebra; and then by the axiomatic needs of algebraic geometry, the field most resistant to the Russell-Whitehead view of united foundations.
		General category theory — an updated universal algebra with many new features allowing for semantic flexibility and higher-order logic — came later; it is now applied throughout mathematics.
		Categorical logic is now a well-defined field based on type theory for intuitionistic logics, with application to the theory of functional programming and domain theory, all in a setting of a cartesian closed category as non-syntactic description of a lambda calculus.
	www.e-paranoids.com /c/ca/category_theory.html (2389 words)

	Doug Groothuis
		The theory of meaning is deemed to divide the epistemic field into sense and non-sense without remainder and therefore cannot itself afford to find its ultimate abode in non-sense and meaninglessness.
		One might want to argue that the impression-idea theory of meaning is exempt from the impression-idea relationship it stipulates because it is a logical truth concerning the relation of ideas.
		A theory of meaning may have wide application, be integral to a philosophical system, and be marshaled repeatedly with immediate and impressive results as is the case in Hume’s Treatise.
	ivpress.gospelcom.net /groothuis/doug/archives/000111.php (3411 words)

	Deconstruction \| Philosophy of Meaning \| Theory of Criticism \| Philosophical Movement of Literal Criticism \| ...
		In linguistics, philosophy, and literary theory, the exposure and undermining of the metaphysical assumptions involved in systematic attempts to ground knowledge, especially in academic disciplines such as structuralism and semiotics.
		As an extension of his theory of logocentrism, Derrida posited that all texts are based on hierarchical dualisms (e.g., being/nonbeing, reality/appearance, male/female), where the first element is regarded as stronger and thus essentially true and that all systems of thought have an assumed center, or Archimedean point, upon which they are based.
		While the theory has lost much of its intellectual currency, the general acceptance and popularity of interdisciplinary scholarship in the 1980s and 90s are regarded by many as an outgrowth of deconstruction.
	www.questia.com /library/literature/literary-theory/deconstruction.jsp (803 words)

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