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    Comments on Roger Teichmann’s Article (2016) The Identity of a Word
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    Comments on Roger Teichmann’s Article (2016) The Identity of a Word
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    Comments on Roger Teichmann’s Article (2016) The Identity of a Word

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    Philosopher Roger Teichmann comments on an essay that appears in a recent compilation by philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. Ancombe’s essay is entitled, “A Theory of Meaning?” It concerns Wittgenstein.
    Wittgenstein is a philosopher who writes in aphorisms. One goes like this: “A sound is an expression only in a particular language game.”
    Anscombe wonders whether this aphorism would support a micro-reductionist theory of language. Teichmann agrees that the answer is no.
    In the process, however, Teichmann addresses key issues in figuring out the identity of a word. These issues serve as starting points for the construction of nested forms. Ultimately, three nested forms resonate. One goes with Saussure and Wittgenstein. One goes with Mary Douglas, who wrote How Institutions Think. One goes with the question formulated by Teichmann: What is the identity of a word?
    Teichmann’s conclusion is that, if there is a theory that arises from Wittgenstein’s aphorism, it would not be a micro-reductionist theory of language. It might be a foundational theory of meaning. The nested forms show how Teichmann’s intuition is on target.

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    PublisherRazie Mah
    Release dateMar 20, 2016
    ISBN9781942824176
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      Comments on Roger Teichmann’s Article (2016) The Identity of a Word - Razie Mah

      Introduction

      0001 If a word has an identity, then what does that mean?

      If two words, with precisely the same phonetic and written embodiment, appear in different situations, then are they identical. Thus, the term identity resonates with identical. But, are the two words truly identical?

      0002 Roger Teichmann raises these questions in a wandering review of an essay by Elizabeth Anscombe, which raises a different question: Is Wittgenstein of the Philosophical Investigations proposing a micro-reductionist theory of language?

      0003 His starting point is also a question: Does the word rat occur in the sentence, Socrates loved Plato?

      The Word as Actuality and Sign

      0004 A word is an actuality. According to Charles S. Peirce, actuality belongs to secondness. Secondness is dyadic. It has two elements. Ferdinand de Saussure proposed a dyad for the word. The spoken word consists of a parole (sound vehicle) arbitrarily associated to a langue (mental object).

      0005 A word is a sign. According

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