The Philosophy of Language

Adjective antonymous artificial language basis Carnap Chomsky concepts conceptual knowledge condition constituent contain contradictory define definitions derived phrase markers derived readings determine dictionary entry empirical evaluation semantic marker example expressions fact final derived phrase formal grammatical features guage guistic interpreted underlying phrase J. A. Fodor J. J. Katz knife language acquisition device language philosophers lexical readings linguistic communication linguistic description logical empiricists logical syntax meaning postulates metaphysical n-tuple natural lan natural language notion Noun Phrase occur ordinary language philosophy particular philosophical problems philosophy of language phonetic phonological phrase structure rules Physical Object predicate principles projection rules pseudo-object sentences redundancy rules relations selection restriction semantic categories semantic component semantic theory semantically anomalous semantically interpreted underlying sense speakers specify string symbols syntactic component synthetic sentences tence theory of language theory of logical things tion truth underlying phrase marker Verb Phrase W. V. Quine Wittgenstein