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Language & Meaning

Thinkers and essays gathered around this school of thought.

4Thinkers
1Thoughts
15Major Works
6Archive Entries
Contemporary · ModernTime Period
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Jacques Derrida

Reads texts through deconstruction, difference, ambiguity, traces, and the instability of fixed meaning.

“There is nothing outside the text.”
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1930–2004

Jacques Derrida

Reads texts through deconstruction, difference, ambiguity, traces, and the instability of fixed meaning.

Language & Meaning · Literary Theory · Poststructuralism
1872–1970

Bertrand Russell

Clarifies logic, language, mathematics, skepticism, ethics, peace, and public reason with analytical precision.

Language & Meaning · Logic · Mathematics
1889–1951

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Investigates language, meaning, rules, forms of life, logic, and the limits of philosophical explanation.

Analytic Philosophy · Language & Meaning · Logic
1839–1914

Charles Sanders Peirce

Develops pragmatism, signs, inquiry, fallibilism, logic, and scientific reasoning as communal truth-seeking.

Language & Meaning · Logic · Science
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deconstructiondifférancetracesupplementlogocentrismlogical atomismanalytic philosophytypesskepticismpublic reason
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