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Question posted on June 13, 2013; no responses
Wikipedia has an interesting (for me, at least) definition of question: "A question is a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or the request made using such an expression." This means that there are two senses of...
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Question posted on June 7, 2013; 1 response
One can say something mixing words from two languages (say, English and Ukrainian), and make good, clear and exact sense. One can even mix parts of words, or structures, and make perfect sense. My problem is that such an invented...
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Question posted on June 7, 2013; no responses
Some languages contain words that are not readily translated into other languages. For example, the German word "Weltschmerz"--which means the sadness caused by comparing the world as it is with how it could be ideally. Certainly, English speakers have experienced...
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Question posted on May 15, 2013; 1 response
For a philosophy student, what is the best language to learn? Particulary, a student interested in moral and political philosophy, and epistemology too. I think is english, and that's why I'm already learning it. If I'm right, what is the...
Education, Language, Philosophy Show

Question posted on March 29, 2013; 1 response
Isn't racist to find the word "nigger" racist? As in when it's merely said around you and not directed towards you. When someone calls another an "asshole," there isn't a normally a particular ethnicity that comes to mind -- yet...
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Question posted on March 15, 2013; 1 response
My question concerns whether or not questions should be taken into consideration in understanding the answers to those questions. Let's take the following question and answer as an example: Q: What time are you leaving for your lecture today? A:...
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Question posted on February 21, 2013; 1 response
I read in one of my dad's linguistic books that some languages have exactly three basic color words: black, white, and red. I wondered if this meant that for the people who speak these languages, everything that is not black...
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Question posted on February 7, 2013; 1 response
Does complex and conventional language hamper the growth of true understanding in philosophy? ...
Language, Philosophy Show

Question posted on January 31, 2013; 1 response
I was recently at a wedding where one of the guests at my table (people from the other side of the new family) said something about the "maid of honors". Another person sitting next to him quickly leapt in...
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Question posted on January 31, 2013; 1 response
Are expressions like "women are beautiful" sexist? Doesn't that imply that women exist as something to be admired rather than as beings in and of themselves? ...
Feminism, Language Show

Question posted on November 1, 2012; 1 response
My question is about Rigid Designators. I enjoyed reading Kripke a lot, but I find this concept hard to understand. According to Kripke, a rigid designator refers to, or picks up, the same thing in every possible world. But this...
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Question posted on September 22, 2012; 1 response
Could someone explain the Frege's puzzle? Is it directly related to semantic stuff? How?...
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Question posted on September 6, 2012; 1 response
I've heard some philosophers of mind use the term 'singular content'- but what does that mean? ...
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Question posted on August 23, 2012; 2 responses
The notion of something being a "fake" seems linguistically odd. Normally, if you have an adjective and a noun, the noun notes what the thing being talked about is, and the adjective describes some quality of the thing in...
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Question posted on August 23, 2012; 1 response
Does the word 'being' have a meaning?...
Existence, Language Show

Question posted on August 16, 2012; 2 responses
Suppose Jane, while growing up, somehow learned the wrong meaning for the word "migraine," and came to believe that any particularly strong headache, regardless of whether it occurred on one or both sides of the head, was a migraine -...
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Question posted on August 9, 2012; 1 response
Does a proposition which is always false such as 'one plus one equals seven' have false truth conditions or no truth conditions?...
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Question posted on July 26, 2012; 2 responses
What does "fuc*ing" mean and why is it a bad word? Does fuc*ing mean sex where there is a desire to express physical control or dominance over a woman? Is that a bad thing? Is it a normal aspect of...
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Question posted on July 19, 2012; 1 response
Suppose I write a computer program that randomly strings words together, and the first output it produces happens to be "I am a janitor." Is the output an instance of language? Does it mean anything, and if so, what?...
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Question posted on July 19, 2012; 1 response
Can someone point me in the direction of literature that tries to develop a philosophical understanding of how language change over time? Or is there not much literature on the subject?...
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