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Tan, Yoo Guan. "Sense and meaning." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316794.

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Murphy, Anthony Paul. "The Meaning of Wilderness /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1382635546.

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Uings, David John. "Mind, meaning and miscommunication." Connect to e-thesis, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/355/.

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Thesis (M.Phil.) - University of Glasgow, 2008.<br>M.Phil. thesis submitted to the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

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Stanley, Jason. "Meaning and metatheory." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11347.

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Petit, Arnaud. "Meaning as a Normative Stance." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36270.

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In the past few years, the claim that meaning is normative has grown increasingly suspect and many powerful arguments have been developed against its interpretation in terms of (1) conditions of correct use, (2) prescriptions and (3) rule-following. In the first essay of my thesis, I discuss the precise arguments that have been invoked by Paul Boghossian and by Kathrin Glüer and Asa Wikforss against the latter interpretation. In the second essay, I turn towards the two other interpretations of the normativity of meaning, as they are discussed by Anandi Hattiangadi and by Daniel Whiting. My mai

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Upton, H. R. "Moral theories and applied philosophy." Thesis, Swansea University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.639288.

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This thesis aims to make a critical inquiry into the concept of a moral theory in relation to the ideas of applied ethics and applied philosophy. It defends the general possibility of theories of morality and, in the course of the work, attempts to establish the conditions that such a theory must meet. Particular attention is focused on the ideas of explanation and the contribution of a theory to the criteria for right action. It argues that since moral theories are taken to concern how we should act, anything properly having that title should be determinate of right action. A detailed investi

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Snelling, David. "Philosophy, psychoanalysis and the origins of meaning." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267252.

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Williams, S. G. "Meaning, validity and necessity." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.354816.

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Psomas, Patricia Noga. "Speech act theories of meaning." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Nivre, Joakim. "Situations, meaning, and communication a situation theoretic approach to meaning in language and communication /." Göteborg, Sweden : Dept. of Linguistics, University of Göteborg, 1992. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/31171651.html.

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Becker, Kelly M. "Meaning holism : an articulation and defense /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9935483.

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McKinnon, Christine. "Wittgenstein, Frege and theories of meaning." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385581.

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Metz, Alexander Johan. "Meaning in Apocalypse." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1590800369838626.

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Poitras, Sylvain. "Answering meaning scepticism: Judgement-dependence and interpretationism." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27805.

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The aim of this thesis is to provide an answer to the problem of meaning scepticism as presented by Kripke by appealing to facets of a person's mental history. Following Wright's strategy, the sceptic's demand for a fact that determines meaning is placated by appealing to intentions. The focus of the problem becomes the need for a satisfactory account of first-person authority that also answers Kripke's argument from 'queerness'. Two approaches are presented, one from the traditional first-person perspective, and the other from Davidson's standpoint of the interdependence of self-knowledge, kn

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Howe, Thomas A. "Toward a thomistic theory of meaning." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 1991. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Tingley, Edward. "Notes on the objectivity of meaning Gadamerian observations." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5900.

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Öberg, Anders. "Hilary Putnam on Meaning and Necessity." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Filosofiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-160279.

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In this dissertation on Hilary Putnam's philosophy, I investigate his development regarding meaning and necessity, in particular mathematical necessity. Putnam has been a leading American philosopher since the end of the 1950s, becoming famous in the 1960s within the school of analytic philosophy, associated in particular with the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language. Under the influence of W.V. Quine, Putnam challenged the logical positivism/empiricism that had become strong in America after World War II, with influential exponents such as Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach. P

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MacMillan, Angela. "Agnostics' apologies : the meaning of Victorian agnosticism." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266149.

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Cely, Patrick. "The Vorpel Blade: A Philosophical Adventure in Meaning." TopSCHOLAR®, 1988. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2220.

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Fol.r major accounts of linguistic meaning are considered. A referential theory of meaning as developed by Bertrand Russell is considered and rejected on the grounds of some critical observations made by P. F. Strawson. An instrumentalistic theory of meaning as adopted by Ludwig Wittgenstein is next considered and found after an evaluation by C. S. Chihara and J. A. Fodor to be inconclusive. A behavioristic theory of meaning as advocated by Charles W. Morris is considered next. Based on questions posed by L. O. Kattsoff this theory of meaning is found to be, at best, incomplete. Finally, an id

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Emme, Michael John. "Derivation and application of a model of lens meaning." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32277.

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The twofold purpose of this study was to ground a model of Lens Meaning in the literature of the Fine Arts and Social Sciences and to use that term as a referent in evaluating three Media Studies curricula. Lens Meaning is a term derived from a variety of sources, particularly Peirce (1955), whose semiotic theory described three systems of signs used as terms on one axis of a matrix or model by which Lens Meaning can be described. These terms are: "index", "icon", and "symbol". DeLauretis' (1984) expanded understanding of another system of signs described by Peirce, interpretants, is the foun

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Bingham, Robert. "Improvising Meaning in the Age of Humans." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/450625.

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Dance<br>Ph.D.<br>This dissertation is an ecological philosophy rooted in dance as a somatic mode of knowing and as a way of perceiving the world through and as movement. It is phenomenological, drawing meaning from a dedicated practice of improvisational dance and from extensive dialogue with dance and somatics artist/philosopher Sondra Horton Fraleigh. This emergent knowledge is integrated into discourses and practices addressing the relationship of the human and more than human world in the context of a deepening environmental crisis in the 21st century. Employing both somatic and conceptua

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Sauerland, Ulrich 1969. "On the making and meaning of chains." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9671.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1998.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-303).<br>This thesis investigates the mechanisms applying in the interpretation of syntactic chains. The theoretical background includes a translation of syntactic forms into semantic forms and a model theoretic explication of the meaning of semantic forms. Simplicity considerations apply to all three stages of the interpretation process: syntactic derivation, translation into semantic forms, interpretation of semantic forms. Three main results are ac

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Koslow, Allison Robbins. "Meaning change, in theory and in practice." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130209.

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Thesis: Ph. D. in Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, September, 2020<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Semantic change is of interest in its own right in the philosophy of language. For instance, it sheds light on the relationship between the meaning of a word and its use. It also plays a role in ideology critique. Philosophy of language often focuses on explaining synchronic features related to truth, entailment, and implicature. It is presumed an account of language's

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Moore, Andrew. "Realism and Christian faith : God, grammar and meaning." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297536.

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Collins, John Patrick. "The meaning of truth : Tarski, deflationism, and interpretation." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298277.

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The aim of my thesis is to develop a third way to truth, between traditional substantive theories, and deflationist accounts which seek to show that truth has no content. I begin with Tarski's definition of truth, and show that the definition enables the elimination of 'is true' in terms of the concepts expressible in the object-language (+logic/set theory). The definition, therefore, appears to provide a basis for deflationism. I consider a variety of deflationisms. Their common denominator is the thought that the content of truth is exhausted by the content of the sentences to which truth is

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Merli, David Allen. "Moral disagreement and shared meaning." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1069868437.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 277 p.; also includes graphics Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-278). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

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Thesen, Lucia. "Voices in discourse: Re-thinking shared meaning in academic writing." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7871.

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As a teacher of academic literacy, the researcher is involved in initiating non-traditional students into academic language practices--the academic 'conversation'. This study approaches mediation in a way that takes student diversity into account. This is done through an exploration of the relationship between the biographies of speakers of English as an additional language and their experience of writing academic essays in the faculties of Arts and Social Science at the University of Cape Town. In order to explore this relationship, the research draws on ethnographic methodology, and takes pl

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Kotecha, Shreena. "Meaning and exegesis in the philosophy of St. Augustine." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658872.

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This thesis aims instead to look at what a major figure like Augustine, writing about interesting ideas, does with language and meaning in theory and practice. A study of Augustine can show us something interesting about how reader/text interaction works and, more specifically, how a rather influential reader interacts with a text that he believes to be of supreme importance. The questions of the philosophy of language and the language of philosophy tend to be considered in the abstract: I consider them in terms of a particular philosopher. Aqugustine wrote philosophy in a language that is mea

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Kallerstrup, Jesper. "On having meaning in mind." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12911.

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There have traditionally been two views as to what makes it the case that a singular term has the prepositional content that it does. According to Descriptivism, the content of a term is descriptive since it is given by a cluster of descriptive properties commonly associated with it. According to Referentialism, the content of a term is singular since it is determined by the object it picks out. It follows that empty terms can have descriptive, but not singular, content. If narrow content is what intrinsic duplicates have in common, then descriptive content is arguably narrow. Singular content

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Collins, James A. "Legitimating a theodicy : Peter Berger and the search for meaning in post-Enlightenment society." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1994. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1096.

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This thesis seeks to provide an overview and examination of the thought of the significant contemporary sociologist, Peter L. Berger. Berger is concerned with the issue of how meaning is constructed in modern, secular, bureaucratic society. Furthermore, this thesis seeks to outline, and trace the development of, Berger's thought. To achieve this the thesis examines Berger's use of the disciplines of the sociology of knowledge and religion, along with contemporary studies in religion and theology. Berger, by linking the function of a theodicy with that of making meaning, allows for theodicies t

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Kortum, Richard Dennis. "Theory of meaning : sense, force, tone and truth." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3995121e-4d4f-4621-a5a7-ed3da6958fd3.

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This thesis examines Michael Dummett's form of a theory of meaning for natural language. I argue that Dummett's extension of Frege's formal techniques to the semantics of natural language, based on the categories of sense, force and tone, and the centrality of truth, provides an inadequate theoretical account of linguistic competence. Part One examines the celebrated sense-force distinction. Dummett's schematic model of force-indicators and sentence-radicals ignores or mishandles semantic features of numerous ordinary expressions and linguistic forms. In many cases the distinction is blurred,

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Pietroski, Paul M. "Meaning naturally--a partial defense of covariation semantics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14141.

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Kermode, Robert. "Three aspects of the nature of linguistic meaning." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10902.

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Moon, Shane Phoenix. "The Search for Meaning and Morality in the Works of Cormac McCarthy." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1431165514.

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Barr, Kelli Ray. "Practicing Relevance: The Origins, Practices, and Future of Applied Philosophy." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984236/.

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This dissertation takes up the question of the social function of philosophy. Popular accounts of the nature and value of philosophy reinforce long-standing perceptions that philosophy is useless or irrelevant to pressing societal problems. Yet, the increasingly neoliberal political-economic environment of higher education places a premium on mechanisms that link public funding for research to demonstrations of return on investment in the form of benefitting broader society. This institutional situation presents a philosophical problem warranting professional attention. This project offers a d

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OLIVEIRA, MARCELA FIGUEIREDO CIBELLA DE. "FROM THE MEANING OF TRAGEDY TO THE TRAGEDY OF MEANING: PHILOSOPHY AND THE RUIN OF DRAMA." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2014. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=34912@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>FUNDAÇÃO DE APOIO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>BOLSA NOTA 10<br>Esta tese investiga a passagem histórica da antiga questão do sentido da tragédia para a contemporânea constatação de uma tragédia do sentido no drama, culminando na discussão filosófica sobre a ruína da forma dramática tradicional em obras do final do século XIX até meados do XX - em especial, no caso de Samuel Beckett.<br>This thesis investigates the historic passage from the old issue of the Meanin

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Wong, Pak-hang, and 黃柏恒. "Names and assertions: Soames's millian descriptivism." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B35337096.

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Bailey, Anthony D. (Anthony Dean Arthur). "An investigation into the meaning of liturgical language." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26062.

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Over the past number of years, the study of language has been engaged in increasingly by a wide variety of academic disciplines and fields. Perhaps this bears witness to the growing appreciation of the pivotal role that language plays in our formation as individual persons, as peoples and as cultures.<br>As a particular kind of speech, liturgical language takes seriously the multi-dimensional nature of human reality, and, among other things, addresses itself to the profound questions of meaning posed by the human condition, as well as the 'needs' that arise in the posing of these questions. Fu

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Quentmeyer, Patrick. "Origin Myths| Performativity and the Geography of Meaning." Thesis, Georgetown University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10810094.

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<p> Origin myths tell the founding of a place. They signify membership and locate in time and space by providing a context and etiology for identity that is historical, theological, social, and geographic. This identity, however, does not remain static as origin myths take on a performative quality because of the values they express. This thesis seeks to explore what origin myths reveal about the human relationship with place in an effort to understand the human values at stake in these myths. </p><p> As complex narratives, origin myths demand an analysis that accounts for their density. Thi

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Rogers, Peter. "Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and the resolution of the problem of meaning." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323063.

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Hurtado, Guillermo. "Predication, quantification and meaning : a study of Russell's philosophical logic." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284242.

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McCabe, Joseph. "Aquinas, prudence, and proactive parenting: The "Treatise" applied." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10409.

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This dissertation is on prudence and its role in child-rearing. More specifically, it is on how Thomas Aquina's Treatise on Prudence (S.T. IIa IIae QQ 47-56) can with profit be used to help parents today in the task of raising their children well. It is the author's conviction that Aquinas has a unique and important contribution to make to the contemporary debate on 'parenting', so-called, and the dissertation is a defense of that conviction. The paper is divided into three Parts, with each Part consisting of two chapters. The overall logical structure of the paper is that of chain argument wh

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Woodruff, Ghofur Eliot. "An ecosemantic theory of musical meaning." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609699.

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Penner, Harold. "Meaning, mystery, method and mystagogy according to Reinhold Niebuhr." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66742.

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This study is about Reinhold Niebuhr's notions of meaning, mystery, method, and mystagogy. Niebuhr's understanding of myth is the binding thread through these notions, and it is to be found in issues dealing not only with protology (the idea of creation and the biblical accounts of the 'beginnings'), but also with eschatology (the biblical idea of the ends of time and history) and the relevance of this idea for Christian faith today. The first chapter highlights Niebuhr's basic premise regarding meaning, namely the conviction that mystery does not obstruct, but augments, the

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Johnston, David. "J.L. Austin on truth and meaning." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=70292.

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The thesis presents a development of J. L. Austin's analysis of truth and its accompanying analysis of sentence structure. This involves a discussion and refinement of Austin's notions of the demonstrative and descriptive conventions of language and of the demonstrative and descriptive devices of sentences. The main point of the thesis is that ordinary language must be treated as an historical phenomenon: one that has evolved its more complex features through a long series of variations upon a small number of rudimentary conventions and locutions. The utility of Austin's analysis is shown to l

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Kuukkanen, Jouni-Matti. "Meaning change in the context of Thomas S. Kuhn's philosophy." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1259.

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Thomas S. Kuhn claimed that the meanings of scientific terms change in theory changes or in scientific revolutions. In philosophy, meaning change has been taken as the source of a group of problems, such as untranslatability, incommensurability, and referential variance. For this reason, the majority of analytic philosophers have sought to deny that there can be meaning change by focusing on developing a theory of reference that would guarantee referential stability. A number of philosophers have also claimed that Kuhn’s view can be explained by the fact that he accepted and further developed

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Kelly, Dominic Peter. "Philosophy and poetry : the meaning of history in Heidegger's thought." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2014. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/336071/.

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This thesis is concerned with the turning that occurs in the work of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). It seeks to reveal it as a turning that takes place within the notion of history as it is elaborated by Heidegger in the difference between Nietzsche and Hölderlin, that is, in the difference between philosophy and poetizing. To this end, the thesis attempts to unify two themes within the interpretation of Heidegger‟s work which have, in the face of the vast corpus of secondary literature, found but little attention: the first concerns the move from Nietzsche to Hölderlin and thus from a purely p

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Craig, David Latch. "Artifice and wear : cultural meaning and change." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/36206.

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Campbell, Peter. "On rules and the metaphysics of meaning." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4054.

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In this work I develop an argument which shows that rule-following is impossible, and investigate its impact on the philosophy of language. By way of orientation, I start with a critical evaluation of existing ‘rule-following considerations’, arguments derived from Wittgenstein which purportedly put rule-following under pressure. Having shown that its predecessors are unsound, and with the explicit aim of avoiding their flaws, I then formulate the new ‘indexical’ argument. The conclusion that rule-following is impossible is difficult to accept because we think that the ability to folldiw rules

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Hamilton, Christopher Francis. "The problem of meaning in modernity : an essay in moral psychology." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336281.

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