In very simple terms, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was concerned with whether concepts are useful or not. At first glan...

Mental events and states were traditionally deemed to be private. Public language, on the other hand, is intersubjective . Yet we use ...

First things first. The technical terms used in this short and simplified piece will be somewhat controversial. The main reason for this ...

J.S. Mill believed that the meanings of singular terms were their denotations. Denotations are usually seen as objects of some descriptio...

It can be said (just to get it out of the way) that there's no direct denial of the world (or of an “independent reality”) by any/mo...