Sentences with phrase «linguistic expression»

Therefore, we need to explore other possibilities of linguistic expression.

This version of symbolic functioning allows a comparison between the interpretation of a sense presentation such as the sight of lightning and linguistic expression such as the word «tree».

As form and matter are balanced in a perfect work of art, so both elements of linguistic expression are in perfect proportion in a fully developed language, none prevailing over the other.

Whitehead's account of the functions of what he terms «symbols in Symbolism and Process and Reality offers a suggestive attempt at such an extension.4 In the first of these works two basic forms of symbols are distinguished: linguistic expressions in the form of perceived words and sentences and our sense presentations correlated to natural objects.

In developing his argument against this fallacy, Whitehead's philosophy moves away from modernity's logocentric assumptions of an underlying ontological reality to which linguistic expressions conform.

Just as linguistic expressions lead us to anticipate certain experiences, so for Berkeley certain experiences or immediate ideas are «natural signs» of others, as the sound of the coach is a sign of the sight of the approaching coach.8 The second realist version can be found in the writings of Thomas Reid, for whom sensations are signs of external objects.

The ancient tongues were but a small though important province in the realm which he explored tirelessly, testing his general theory of linguistic expression by an investigation not only of Indo - European and Semitic idioms but also of Basque and Hungarian, of American Indian languages, of Chinese and South Sea dialects.1 Visitors found the aged sage «pure and perfect like an ancient work of art.»

Neither is meaning dependent upon nor constituted by an essential substance to which linguistic expressions approximate themselves (OG 31 - 32; MP 24 - 25, In other words, we do not derive meaning from being nor from a symbolic correlation to being.

«Concepts» stands here for «real - life entities,» which can be described in many different linguistic expressions.

Derrida rejects the presumption that philosophy presents being, presence, and reality more accurately than literature and other forms of linguistic expressions.

4 I follow Whitehead in using his term «symbol» in a generic sense applying to both linguistic expressions and sense presentations as natural signs.

But what meaningful analogy can hold between such a causal effect and a linguistic expression such as the word «tree» or the sentence «The stove is hot»?

Does the «more» bridge the linguistic expression and the ontological referent?

In order to understand man and his creation in artistic and linguistic expression, our organs of comprehension must be activated.

Distinguishing a proposition from its judgment or its linguistic expressions enables Whitehead to show the real significance of a proposition.

If propositions were identical with judgments and their linguistic expressions and had truth value as a conceptual constituent, Whitehead's notion of the «locus» of a proposition would not be possible.

Thus, the particular spatio - temporal self - determinations of actual entities prevent the conveyance of their full «ontological presence» in any linguistic expression.

Therefore, Derrida's arguments breaks down the sharp distinctions that separate and privilege philosophy over other forms of linguistic expressions.

Linguistic expressions are necessarily abstractions from reality, and hence, interpret actual entities by defining only certain aspects.

Francis intuitively understands that propositions — contents of thought that are true or false — do not vary as the language in which they are expressed varies; truths of faith are more than their linguistic expression.

First, there is a certain logic to the present order, a looking outward and then inward, a movement from context to person to biblical text and finally to linguistic expression.

The Swedish Academy was established in 1786 to promote the Swedish language by setting standards and developing poetry and other forms of linguistic expression.