Philosophy of Language
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Definition
Philosophy of Language studies meaning, reference, truth, use, understanding, and the relation between language, speakers, and the world.
Background
It became a central area of analytic philosophy through figures such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Austin, Grice, and Davidson.
Position
It is the umbrella field for discussions of LLM utterances, meaning, language games, and Intentionality.
Distinctions
- Linguistics empirically studies language structure and use; philosophy of language asks conceptual questions about meaning, truth, and reference.
- It is not the same as natural language processing as a technical field.
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- Philosophy of language - Britannica Reference
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- Language Games, Intentionality, and LLMs
A literature-grounded report on Wittgensteinian language games, intentionality, and recent philosophical work on large language models.
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