Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century
The Age of Meaning
Chapter One
REJECTION OF THE TRACTARIAN CONCEPTION OF LANGUAGE AND ANALYSIS
CHAPTER OUTLINE
1. Critique of the Tractarian Conception of Language
The Augustinian picture vs. the conception of meaning as use
Conceptual prerequisites of ostensive definitions
Reference and analysis
The meaning and reference of names
Language games, family resemblances, and vagueness
2. Wittgenstein's New Conception of Language and Linguistic Analysis
Ordinary language is not to be understood on the model of logical calculi;
sentences have neither hidden logical forms nor unique analyses
Language use is not to be explained by speakers knowing and being guided by
linguistic rules, but rather by unthinking, socially-conditioned agreement
3. Wittgenstein's Deflationary Conception of Philosophy
Roots of this conception in his identification of the philosophical with the
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