Linguistics and philosophy: the dimensions of the 21st century
Linguistics and philosophy: the dimensions of the 21st century

Summary/Abstract: The article highlights the new dimensions for the integral interaction between linguistics and philosophy in the 21st century. Starting from the philosophical conceptionsof B. Russel and L Wittgenstein the question ofhow to acquirethe linguistic knowledge – by experience or reasoning – still brings about scientific debate. In the present paper we give reasons to the idea that philosophy based on language analysis is one thing; the basing of language analysis on philosophy is quite another. Modern applications of the linguistic analysis based on the use of philosophical methods and categories are suggested; the choice of language means for the effective human-computer interaction via graphical user interfaces of computer software is one of them. The main focus of the article is explaining the mechanisms of formal inductive modeling and deductive reasoning that are involved in selecting appropriate language means for the software discourse. Special attention is given to linguistic categorization that serves as a bridge between deductive reasoning and formal inductive modeling.

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