Title: ‘Meaning’, experience and the ontological argument
Abstract: There is a theory about knowledge of the meanings of words which has been held by philosophers as different as existentialists and crude empiricists. 1 It may be called the empiricist theory, and is stated thus: If anyone fully understands the meaning of ‘ x ’, then the object(s) denoted by ‘ x ’ must have been experienced or ‘encountered’ by that person.
Publication Year: 1979
Publication Date: 1979-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
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