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Where Meaning Is
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-17, 09:17 authored by Rush, PAIn an attempt to find some new ways of tackling old problems about meaning, I explore some possible models in which meaning may be conceptually situated. I take a close look at a traditional realist conception of meaning and give some reasons as to why we may have more room to move within this than is immediately apparent. Alternative frameworks are explored along the way. The approach of thus situating meaning is an ontological one, but it is also an epistemological, as well as a hermeneutical one; in that the models put forward illuminate central issues and offer potential solutions to outstanding puzzles ranging across (at least) all of these broad realms of enquiry. Such solutions give a set of initial conceptualizations of the potential role meaning can play across broader frameworks of enquiry. As such they offer fresh inroads into otherwise deadlocked debates over the nature and place of meaning across philosophical enquiry in general.
History
Publication title
South African Journal of PhilosophyVolume
29Issue
4Pagination
391-403ISSN
0258-0136Department/School
School of HumanitiesPublisher
Philosophical Society Southern AfricaPlace of publication
C/O Dr D J Louw, Editor, Univ North, Dept Philosophy, Private Bag X1106, Sovenga, South Africa, 0727Repository Status
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