linguistic turn
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "Philosophy during the first half of the century has taken the linguistic turn. Words are used either philosophically or commonsensically. Philosophical uses are literally unintelligible. The task is to explicate them by talking commonsensically about them. This is the fundamental idea of the turn."
- "The so-called linguistic turn. . . involved moving away from foundationalist assumptions of the primacy of logic and towards a more subtle recognition of the varied nature of language and of its deep influence, its pervasive implications across the range of human practices."
Etymology
Phrases
epistemological turn
visual turn
Frequently Paired Words
epistemological turn
visual turn