Etymology

linguistic turn

Today it means: The shift which occurred in philosophical attention, during the 20th century and within a number of philosophical schools of thought, from traditional themes of metaphysics and epistemology to a focus on the structure and usage of language and the relation of language to human understanding of those traditional themes. Full definition →

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Popularized by Richard Rorty in The Linguistic Turn (1967).

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