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Confronted with the task of defining the meaning of the very term ‘meaning’ our first impression is that we have embarked upon a circular path and that in the end we must arrive at contradictions similar to Russell’s antimonies with classes which are an element of themselves or with predicates that themselves have the property they designate.
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Along these lines Broad wrote in 1914: “Strictly speaking a thing has meaning when direct acquaintance with it or knowledge of it permits us to infer or by association to think of something else”. (Broad, Perception, Physics and Reality, 1914, p. 97.)
Cf. Ogden and Richards, The Meaning of Meaning, London, 1923, Appendix C, pp. 435–6.
Russell, Preface to the Second Edition of The Principles of Mathematics, London, 1938, p. 47.
Russell, The Problems of Philosophy, London, 1912, p. 91.
Russell, ‘The Meaning of Meaning,’ Mind, 1920, p. 401.
John Laird, A Story of Realism, p. 27.
Gilbert Ryle, ‘The Theory of Meaning’, British Philosophy in the Mid-Century, London, 1957, p. 245.
See W. B. Gallie, Peirce and Pragmatism, Harmondsworth, 1952, p. 116.
On several occasions Peirce attempted to subdivide his concept of interpretant into its basic components (immediate, dynamic, and final interpretant). See his letter to Lady Welby of March 14, 1909 in Ogden and Richards, The Meaning of Meaning, p. 441.
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Marković, M. (1984). Meaning as a Complex of Relationships. In: Dialectical Theory of Meaning. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6256-9_7
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