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THE MEANING OF MEANING Ogdan & Richards PHILODSOPHY Semantics and Semiotics
THE MEANING OF MEANING Ogdan & Richards PHILODSOPHY Semantics and Semiotics
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The Meaning of Meaning
By C.K. Ogden (1889–1957) and I.A. Richards’ (1893–1979)
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. First published 1923, this edition was printed in 1956 and is the 10th edition. Black hardback with gilt title/author on spine.
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A very good clean copy, no inscriptions or marks.
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Meaning of Meaning is widely recognised as a classic text of early twentieth-century linguistic semantics and semiotics, but less well known are its links to the ‘logical atomism’ of Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), one of the foundational doctrines of analytic philosophy. In this paper a detailed comparison of The Meaning of Meaning and logical atomism is made, in which several key similarities between the two theories in subject matter and approach are identified: both attempt to describe meaning in terms of the latest psychological doctrines and both pursue a normative program aimed at rectifying the perceived deficiencies of language.
