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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that studies language. Its primary focus includes the nature of linguistic meaning, reference, language use, language learning, language understanding, truth, thought and experience, communication, interpretation and translation. ¨¨The discipline is concerned with five key issues:
1. How are sentences composed into a meaningful whole and what are the meanings of the parts of sentences?
2. What is a meaning?
3. How do we use language socially and what is its purpose?
4. How does language relate to the mind of the speaker and the interpreter?
5. How does language relate to the world?¨(Wikipedia 1)
Though philosophers have always discussed language, it took on a central role in philosophy beginning in the late nineteenth century, particularly in the English speaking world and parts of Europe. ¨The philosophy of language was so pervasive that for a time, in analytic philosophy circles, philosophy as a......

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