PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE PART ONE OUTLINE I. II. Introduction to philosophy of language Language and meaning A. B. IV. Clarifying ambiguity and vagueness A. Classification of concepts B. Intensional and extensional Ideational‚ referential‚ and use theories of meaning Levels of language: Linguistic‚ speech‚ and conversational acts Syntactic and semantic ambiguity Vagueness meaning C. Definitions 1. 2. 3. III. Language and clarity A. B. Definitions and their purposes
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could claim Beethoven as a profitable child prodigy like Mozart at a time. When Beethoven was eight years old‚ he gave his first public performance as a pianist. Few years later‚ Beethoven held a position as assistant to the court organist‚ Christian Gottlob Neefe‚ and that when he received the necessary systematic training in piano performance and composition. In early 1787‚ he went to Vienna to study under Mozart but quickly returned when he heard his mother was dying. Mozart reportedly said to people
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Outline Descartes’ Ontological Argument and explain the key objections that may be used against it. Descartes took the Ontological Argument as presented by Anselm and developed it in a different form. Descartes saw the argument in terms of necessary existence. For Descartes‚ the idea of God necessarily entails his existence. He established that our thoughts are evidence of our own existence (‘I think therefore I am’)‚ and so wanted to see what else he could prove exists. He used the example of a
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envisioned creating a new Mozart‚ a child prodigy. On March 26th 1778‚ at the age of 7 ½‚ Ludwig Van Beethoven gave his first public performance at Cologne. Soon Ludwig learned music‚ notably the organ and composition by renowned musicians such as Gottlob Neefe. Neefe recognized how extraordinarily talented Beethoven was and not only did Neefe teach him music‚ but he made the works of philosophers‚ ancient and modern‚ known to Beethoven as well. In 1782‚ before the age of 12‚ Beethoven published his
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took up the position for the Saxon government saltworks at Weissenfels. In 1797 he enrolled at the Mining Academy of Freiberg in Saxony shortly aftert he death of his fiancée. He was trained in the study of geology by his friend Professor Abraham Gottlob. While he was at Frieberg he learned a number of subjects such as mining‚ mathematics‚ biology‚ history and philosophy. While he was studying these subjects he started collecting material for his famous encyclopedia projects. “...published in 1798
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Bertrand Russell‚ during his undergraduate years‚ revolted against neo-Hegelian idealism and started to make transitions into his own philosophy. Hegel believed that all the separate pieces of the universe were like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and that they all had to connect in some way. He did not go into detail as to exactly how they were supposed to fit‚ but merely that that was how things had to be. Russell found difficulty in subscribing to such a belief and "began to believe everything
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explain how they could create such beautiful music. Beethoven had many noteworthy teachers while Hensel was taught by many lesser-known‚ but just as talented‚ educators. Once Beethoven’s father’s teachings had reached it’s end‚ he was taught by Gottlob Neefe. Neefe taught mainly the organ and compositions to Beethoven and made a comment saying that “If he continues like this‚ he will be‚ without a doubt‚ the new Mozart” Although his teachers helped him greatly‚ Beethoven gave his first performance
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music‚ choral works‚ and songs. Born in Bonn‚ then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire‚ Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and Christian Gottlob Neefe. During his first 22 years in Bonn‚ Beethoven intended to study with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and befriended Joseph Haydn. Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792 and began studying with Haydn‚ quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He
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St Anselm was impressed by Gaunilo’s objections and wrote a careful reply to him. The crux of Anselm’s response was that his argument only applies to the greatest possible being: it is part of the essence of the greatest possible being that it must exist. It is not part of the essence of the greatest possible island that it must exist (islands can exist or not)‚ but it is part of the greatest possible being that it must exist. So whether an atheist thinks Gaunilo’s Lost Island objection is decisive
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Frege was able to resolve his linguistic puzzles through his famous sense and reference distinction‚ yet Russell wanted to develop a theory that could present a solution that does not need to rely on what he considered making arbitrary assumptions (i.e. positing sense when it is not needed). Essentially‚ Russell’s theory of descriptions is predicated upon a purely referential theory of meaning and takes at its heart the understanding that denoting phrases (ordinary names and descriptions) are not
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