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1	Structuralism	3,345
2	Logical positivism	1,277
3	Nominalism	584
4	Linguistic determinism	276
5	Phallogocentrism	252
6	Non-cognitivism	217
7	Theological noncognitivism	206
8	Logical atomism	193
9	Quietism	183
10	Supposition theory	182
11	Theory of descriptions	137
12	Expressivism	132
13	Relevance theory	132
14	Causal theory of reference	129
15	Dramatism	127
16	Direct reference theory	117
17	Descriptivist theory of names	88
18	Verification theory	81
19	Semantic holism	81
20	Semantic externalism	80
21	Jakobson's functions of language	73
22	Symbiosism	71
23	Mediated reference theory	65
24	Cratylism	61
25	Contrast theory of meaning	61
26	Contrastivism	52
27	Picture theory of language	29
28	Inferential role semantics	20
29	Reism	17
30	Two dimensionalism	17
31	Bow-wow theory	12
32	Epistemicism	8
33	Symbiomism	6

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Philosophy of language

Related articles:	Analytic philosophy • Language • Philosophy of information • Philosophical logic • Linguistics • Pragmatics • Rhetoric • Semantics • Formal semantics • General semantics • Semiotics

Concepts in language	Ambiguity • Linguistic relativity • Meaning • Language • Truthbearer • Proposition • Use–mention distinction • Concept • Categories • Set • Class • Intension • Logical form • Metalanguage • Mental representation • Principle of compositionality • Property • Sign • Sense and reference • Speech act • Symbol • Entity • Sentence • Statement • more...

Theories of language	Causal theory of reference • Contrast theory of meaning • Contrastivism • Conventionalism • Cratylism • Deconstruction • Descriptivist theory of names • Direct reference theory • Dramatism • Expressivism • Linguistic determinism • Logical atomism • Logical positivism • Mediated reference theory • Nominalism • Non-cognitivism • Phallogocentrism • Quietism • Relevance theory • Semantic externalism • Semantic holism • Structuralism • Supposition theory • Symbiosism • Theological noncognitivism • Theory of descriptions • Verification theory

Philosophers of language	Plato (Cratylus) • Confucius • Xun Zi • Aristotle • Stoics • Pyrrhonists • Scholasticism • Thomas Hobbes • Gottfried Leibniz • Johann Herder • Wilhelm von Humboldt • Fritz Mauthner • Paul Ricoeur • Ferdinand de Saussure • Gottlob Frege • Franz Boas • Paul Tillich • Edward Sapir • Leonard Bloomfield • Zhuangzi • Henri Bergson • Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) • Bertrand Russell • Rudolf Carnap • Jacques Derrida (Of Grammatology • Limited Inc) • Benjamin Lee Whorf • Gustav Bergmann • J. L. Austin • Noam Chomsky • Hans-Georg Gadamer • Saul Kripke • Alfred Jules Ayer • Donald Davidson • Paul Grice • Gilbert Ryle • P. F. Strawson

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