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Tag: Philosophy of Language

  • Christian Metaphysics – Part 4: Postmodernism

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    This summary on Christian metaphysics and Postmodernism is from the Introduction to Four Views on Christian Metaphysics. Postmodernism is a more recent approach to metaphysics than either the dualistic realism of Platonism and Aristotelianism or the monism of idealism. Postmodernism can be broadly characterized as a marked shift in how metaphysics was understood up through…

  • Wonderful Language of Mathematics

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    Boethius
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    Through the character Socrates in the dialogue Theaetetus, Plato states, “Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.” Many centuries later in The Assayer, Galileo states, “Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first…

  • Semiotics and Philosophy of Language

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    Boethius
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    Semiotics is the study of signs/symbols and their use or interpretation in artificially constructed languages and natural languages. Similar to semiotics, the philosophy of language follows the traditional division of 1) syntax, 2) semantics, and 3) pragmatics. While syntax is the grammar of a language, semantics is the meaning of words and the relation of…