analytical philosophy
81Merleau-Ponty, Maurice — (1908–1961) French phenomenologist, who became professor at the Collège de France in 1952. His major work, the Phénoménologie de la perception (1945, trs. as The Phenomenology of Perception, 1962) anticipates many of the concerns of later… …
82sentence — Most generally, the unit of communication: the smallest entity whose production constitutes a message, such as an assertion, a command, or a question. Given such factors as variations of phonetics or spelling, recognition of two speech acts as… …
83analytic — analytic/synthetic analytical philosophy …
84Anselm, St — (1033/4–1109) Medieval philosopher and theologian. Born in Aosta in Northern Italy, Anselm became a Benedictine, and was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093, although he spent many of the following years in exile. He staunchly defended the rights… …
85Johnson, Samuel — 1. (1696–1772) American philosopher. A symptomatic figure rather than an independently important philosopher, Johnson was born in Connecticut and taught at Yale. He was instrumental in founding the university of Pennsylvania and Columbia… …
86Wisdom, Arthur John Terrence Dibben — (1904– ) British analytical and linguistic philosopher. Wisdom was educated at Cambridge, and after a period in St Andrews returned to Cambridge in 1934, becoming professor in 1952. His work before this time is analytic in direction, and best… …
87Heidegger, Martin — (1889–1976) German existentialist and social critic. Heidegger is probably the most divisive philosopher of the 20th century, being an acknowledged leader and central figure to many (‘continental’) philosophers, and either a convenient example of …
88nothing — The non existence of all things; a concept that can be frightening, fascinating, or dismissed as the product of the logical confusion of treating the term ‘nothing’ as itself a referring expression instead of a quantifier . This confusion leads… …
89Saussure, Ferdinand de — (1857–1913) Swiss linguist generally considered the father of structural linguistics, and of structuralism in its wider application. Saussure locates the study of linguistics in the synchronic relationships of langue rather than parole : the… …
90АНАЛИТИЧЕСКАЯ ФИЛОСОФИЯ — (analytical philosophy) общий термин для типа философии, основанной на аналитической логике, которая враждебна метафизическим спекуляциям. Он происходит от английского эмпиризма Локка, Юма и Милля через Логический позитивизм Венского кружка и… …
