Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)

Behavior and Stimulation: Discussion on the Naturalized Theory of Meaning

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Yang Gao
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Yang Gao
Available Online July 2018.
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10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.337How to use a DOI?
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stimulation; behavior; significance
Abstract

In the twentieth century, Anglo-American analytic philosophers almost all regard the discussion of meaning as their important work and form a variety of theories of meaning. Among them, there are some theories with distinctive styles and distinctive characteristics. American philosopher Willard Quine leads the theory of meaning to behavior and stimulation. Compared with the traditional theory of meaning, this kind of theory of meaning has a great influence with its subjectivity and the emphasis on inter-subjectivity. The clarification of the concept of meaning itself relates to the form in which meaning is presented and the way in which meaning is determined. Quine's theory transforms "meaning" into "stimulating meaning" and takes it as the only reasonable way in which meaning exists, thus revealing its naturalistic standpoint and naturalizing meaning theory.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2018
ISBN
10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.337
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.337How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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