语言哲学 1.1~1.3 徐娇.pptVIP

Chapter 1 Locke and the Nature of Language John Locke John Locke was a British philosopher and an empiricist. His monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understan- ding (1689) is one of the first great defenses of empiricism. 1.当时经验主义的主要代表人物之一； 2.“白板说” （1）theory of tabula rasa（“白板”拉丁文是“tabula rasa”，原指一种洁白无瑕的状态） （2）其实是一种主张认识来源于经验的哲学思想； 3.An Essay Concerning Human Undersdanding 《认识理解论》 1.2 What Locke says Book III deals with the nature of language, its connections with ideas and its role in knowledge. 1.Locke thinks that language is a kind of artefact; the nature