ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 5

The verification theory of meaning: A critical study with special reference to willard van orman quine

  • Author:
  • Rajiba Lochan Behera
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • Page Number: 74 to 82

Abstract

Language is one type of weapon for communicate among human beings. But without understanding of the language human being cannot share the internal or external feeling to anybody. To understand the language means to know the meaning of the language. So the meaning of language plays a vital rule inside the understanding among human beings. So meaning is a crucial media which combined one's internal or external feeling with another's internal or external feeling. Meaning of language makes the heart-to-heart relation of human beings. Some cases it is also very difficult to survive our life without understanding of the meaning of language. Therefore meaning is most needed for the human beings. Among the parts of Philosophy, theories of meaning are the very crucial part. There are different theories of meaning has concerned by different philosophers. My dissertation has based upon one type of theory of meaning that is the verification theory of meaning. The title of my thesis is The Verification Theory of Meaning: A Critical Study with Special Reference to Willard Van Orman Quine.