An Approach to Berkeley's Philosophy of Language
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This paper aims to know the most relevant ideas of Berkeley about language. Although the fact that this philosopher didn’t write systematically his thesis about language, it is possible to track references about the topic along his work. These references are more than enough to “reconstruct” a Berkelian theory of language. Some key ideas of this hypothetical theory are: the idea that language has more ends that the mere knowledge transmission; the imperative need to express ourselves with ordinary language in order to avoid misinterpretations and vacuous concepts (like the concept of matter; the identification between truth and the welfare of man (which is dictated by god) . A close view of the linguistic aspect of Berkeley's philosophy allows one to look at unnoticed features between his ideas and some contemporary philosophies such as american pragmatism, Wittgenstein’s philosophy and the ordinary language philosophy. According to this, Berkeley stands, that’s what we argue, as an unrecognized precursor of what rorty calls as “linguistic turn”.
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