Philosophical language

The philosophy of the ideal language was a direction within analytic philosophy. The representatives of the movement were of the view that the vernacular having deficits. It was explained that slang is imprecise and is not sufficient to numerous claims of logic and is therefore not well suited for philosophy. They pursued the goal of a revision of the normal language for philosophical purposes and summarized also have the option of replacing the normal languages ​​by an "ideal" formal language in the eye. While the representatives of the philosophy of the ideal language strove to improve the natural languages ​​, they only decided in the context of the philosophy of ordinary language it to gain more clarity about the everyday use of language.

History

As a precursor to the philosophy of Aristotle ideal language can apply, who began as one of the first to analyze the language with the help of logical systems. Ramon Lull Also sometimes together with Leibniz cited as representative (see logical machine ). As the actual founder of the philosophy of the ideal language is Gottlob Frege, who wanted to realize this concept in his Begriffsschrift. Other important representatives are Bertrand Russell, the Principia Mathematica, written with Alfred North Whitehead, Ludwig Wittgenstein in his early years, particularly as the author of the Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus, and Rudolf Carnap. Following this, the formal semantics developed by the work of Alfred Tarski, Alonzo Church and Richard Montague. The most famous student of Montague 's David Kaplan. Donald Davidson developed on the basis of Tarski's theory of truth, a truth-conditional theory of meaning. The program of pragmatic logic " speech reconstruction" of the Erlangen constructivism, with which especially the name of Wilhelm Kamlah and Paul Lorenzen are connected, touching partly with these procedures.