Wittgenstein's Definition of Meaning As Use / / Garth Hallet.
The purpose of this book is to examine and explicate a definition given in Philosophical Investigations. The definition of the meaning of a word is that the meaning of a word is its use in the language." Hallet understands this as a definition in the strict sense of the word. In Chapter I, the...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- I: MEANING AND USE IN THE TRACT ATUS
- I. THE SEARCH FOR MEANING
- II. NO MEANING OUTSIDE USE
- III. MEANING REVEALED BY USE
- IV. THE PICTURE THEORY OF MEANING
- V. OCCAM's RAZOR
- VI. Sinn AND Bedeutung IN THE Tractatus
- VII. THE Tractatus MEANINGS
- VIII. THE ACT OF MEANING
- IX. CONCLUSION
- II: WITTGENSTEIN'S REJECTION OF UNITARY MEANINGS
- Introduction
- I. A WIDER VIEW
- II. MEANINGS ARE NOT OBJECTS
- III. MENTAL MEANINGS
- IV. MEANINGS ARE NOT IMAGES
- V. MEANINGS ARE NOT FEELINGS
- VI. CONCLUSION
- III: THE ORIGINS OF THE LATER DEFINITION
- I. THE MOMENT OF TRANSITION
- II. THE DECLINE OF RULES
- III. THE DECLINE OF THE "SYSTEM"
- IV. DEMONSTRATING THE NEW DEFINITION
- V. CONCLUSION
- IV: THE EXTENSION AND INTENSION OF THE DEFINITION
- I. THE DEFINITION'S EXTENSION
- II. THE DEFINITION'S INTENSION
- III. CONCLUSION
- V: THE DEFINITION'S WORTH
- Introduction
- I. TOO NARROW?
- II. TOO BROAD?
- III. TOO VAGUE?
- IV. UNPROVED?
- V. UNIMPORTANT?
- NOTES
- INDEX NOMINUM
- INDEX RERUM