PPT-The Idea Theory of Meaning

Outline Metasemantics The Conformal Theory The Idea Theory Problems for the Idea Theory Summary 1 metasemantics The Meaningless World Most things in the world dont have meanings Rivers and lakes and trees and rocks and planets and black holes and electrons none of these things have meanings . The Conformal Theory. Aristotle. Lived in Greece . 384-322 BCE. Student of Plato at the Academy. Taught Alexander the Great. Started his own school, the Lyceum. Towering figure in Western philosophy and Christianity. Classical Empiricism. Last time we learned about the idea theory. Although it wasn’t confined to the empiricists, most of them ascribed to it (Locke, Berkeley, and Hume being the most notable).. Empiricism was variously the doctrine that all ideas “came from” experience, or that all knowledge did, or both. (Usually both.). Wilhelm von . Humbolt. famously described language as a system that “makes infinite use of finite means.”. Infinite Noun Phrases. There are infinitely many noun phrases: you can always make another one by adding another adjective:. Lesson. 4. To clarify . the concept of meaning of life as the foundation for survival and flourishing.. Objective of this Lesson. Born in a time of peace and prosperity.. It focuses on what is right and good about people.. BY ESPERANZA VERA R. . FULL TIME PROFESSOR . UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGOGICA NACIONAL. Listening for the general idea of a text. (. listening for gist.  . ). Direct. . meaning. . comprehension. What. . is. https://www.scribd.com/document/142971698/1982-Realism-Michael-Dummett. . Realism (concerning X) construed as a semantical thesis: it is a certain interpretation of a class of statements (the statements about X – the given class).. And the Origin of the Universe. 3. 3. The Big Bang—Observation or Speculation?. Scientific Process. Get an idea. Perform. experiments. Create theory. Scientific Process. Get an idea. Perform. experiments. Story #1 – Rope Burn. h. umiliation . hu. -mil-i-. ation. fringes . frin-ges. expectations ex-. pect. -a-. tions. coaxed coax-. ed. sincere sin-. cere. hesitating . hes. -i-ta-ting. Pg. 718. In “walking cities”, people had to live as closely together as possible. Infectious diseases were far deadlier than in rural areas. Urban centers had negative birth to death ratios. The only way to maintain populations was through migration. Story . #6 . – . My . Abuelita. wistful . wist-ful. . grateful grate-. ful. . grim gr-. im. raspy . ras-py. swarmed . swar. -med. revelers rev-el-. ers. irresistible . ir. -re-. sist. Outline. Metasemantics. The Conformal Theory. The Idea . Theory. Primary and Secondary Qualities. General Terms/ Abstract Ideas. The Tribunal of Experience. Summary. 1. metasemantics. The Meaningless World. La gamme de thé MORPHEE vise toute générations recherchant le sommeil paisible tant désiré et non procuré par tout types de médicaments. Essentiellement composé de feuille de morphine, ce thé vous assurera d’un rétablissement digne d’un voyage sur . Alan Dennis. ardennis@indiana.edu. November, 2011. Agenda. What is Theory. What is . Interesting. Theory. Variance Theory versus Process Theory. A Process for Theory Construction. Testing and Generalizing Theory. glu. . glue, agglutinate, conglomerate. l. ump, bond, glue. Root. . Meaning . Examples. . g. rad, . gress. . s. tep, go. grade. , gradual, graduate, progress, graduated, egress . Root. .