What philosopher deals with meaning?

Linguistics, because the entire issue of "meaning" is resolved when you define the word.

>>9221130
K. Elaborate with an author.

>>9221130
OK, and what do we define the word with? Words?

>>9221101
whoever "wrote" this can't think and can't write.

Anyways, almost all of them do. Keywords are "Symbol" and "Representation"

>>9221130
Yes, the greatest philosophers are editors of dictionaries .

>>9221158
wittgenstein

>>9221193
an uninvented metalanguage

>>9221195
I'm OP and I wrote this. I know it's shit, I've been drinking. I have several ideas in my head going a mile a minute and It's terribly difficult to bring into existence these thoughts.

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>>9221101
>unqualified use of the word meaning

>>9221228
I find I express my thoughts more eloquently when I'm in correspondence with someone irl (typically via e-mail). There's a reputational cost to sounding like an idiot, and a social pressure to reduce your thoughts into the most clear and brief expression possible.

Essentially, read articles by academics on topics you're interested in, then e-mail them an original thesis veiled as a question about their own work. In my experience most will respond.

>>9221262
Well, I write much better when sober, but this is an out of the box idea alright. I might try.

heidegger