- Constituted by(describing what conditions would make something true)
- Made up of or determined by; in this case, what things would need to happen for something to count as true.
- Montague(the philosopher whose theory is being critiqued)
- Richard Montague, a logician who created a formal system for analyzing language mathematically, treating sentences as logical objects with precise meanings.
- Wittgenstein
- Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who fundamentally changed how people think about language and meaning in the 20th century. He argued that many philosophical problems arise from misunderstanding how words actually work in everyday life, rather than from deep metaphysical mysteries. His ideas influenced not just philosophy but also mathematics, logic, and even how people approach psychology and artificial intelligence today.
- formal logical structure(what Wittgenstein rejected as the basis for meaning)
- A mathematical or abstract way of organizing language and arguments by precise rules, where meaning is based on symbolic relationships rather than real-world context.
- foundational premise(logic/epistemology)
- A basic assumption or starting point that everything else in an argument depends on.
- sentence meaning(Distinguished from speaker meaning in the context of textual interpretation)
- The meaning encoded in a sentence independent of the specific communicative intention of the speaker or author.
- use in practice(Wittgenstein's theory of what makes language meaningful)
- How people actually use words and language in real-world situations and conversations, rather than in abstract theory.