Introduction to Philosophy of Language

Illustration of a girl with chicken pox and a boy watching a clock.

This illustration is based on H.P. Grice's definitions of meaning. He divided meaning into two categories: natural and nonnatural. According to Grice, nonnatural meaning depends on people's intentions in a way that natural meaning does not. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)

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24.251

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Spring 2006

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

This course is an introduction to the philosophy of language. It examines different views on the nature of meaning, truth and reference, with special focus on the problem of understanding how linguistic communication works.

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Agustín Rayo. 24.251 Introduction to Philosophy of Language. Spring 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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