Wittgenstein's later philosophy posits: "Meaning is use, not reference."
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Wittgenstein's later philosophy posits: "Meaning is use, not reference."
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
Husserl's crisis argued that positivism neglected the lifeworld's meaning-giving role
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein taught at the University of Cambridge
Sense and reference
Frege's distinction between sense and reference
Emmanuel Levinas
Levinas argues that ethics precedes knowledge
Heidegger meant by the forgetting of Being
Heidegger posited that Western metaphysics equates Being with beings, leading to the forgetting of Being
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
Quine's essay attacked two central aspects of logical positivism
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