ON A SEMANTIC THEORY OF ORDINARY LANGUAGE (RESPONSE TO OPPONENTS)

Ladov Vsevolod A.

DOI: 10.23951/2312-7899-2022-3-145-152

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Vsevolod A. Ladov, Tomsk Scientific Center, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation. Tomsk State University, Russian Federation. E-mail: ladov@yandex.ru

This article is the final remark in the discussion on issues related to the construction of a semantic theory of ordinary language. Is a semantic theory of ordinary language possible? What form should this theory take? Is it possible to revive Gottlob Frege’s semantics in modern analytic philosophy? Can Jerrold Katz’s linguistic Platonism claim the status of a semantic theory of ordinary language? Is the concept “meaning as use” of the later Ludwig Wittgenstein a semantic theory? The participants of the discussion tried to answer these questions. The author of this article gives a brief summary of the positions presented in the discussion and draws general conclusions.

Keywords: Frege, Wittgenstein, Katz, analytic philosophy, language, semantics, sense, meaning

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Wittgenstein, L. (2018). Filosofskie issledovaniya [Philosophical Investigations]. Translated from German. AST.

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Issue: 3, 2022

Series of issue: Issue 3

Rubric: ARTICLES. LANGUAGE MEANING AND LINGUISTIC REALISM IN CONTEXT OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

Pages: 145 — 152

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