Meaning and structure : structuralism of (post)analytic philosophers

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Structuralism and Analytic Philosophy -- Why not the French Structuralism? -- Contemporary (Post) Analytic Philosophy and Structuralism -- The Whys and Hows of Structuralism -- What is Meaning? -- Words and 'Mental Representations' -- Is Meaning Within the Mind? -- Is Language a Tool of Conveying Thoughts? -- Meanings as Abstract Objects -- Semantics and Semiotics -- The Case of Augustinus -- Language as a Toolbox -- What is Structuralism? -- Horizontal and Vertical Relations of Language -- Structuralism: Mere Slogan, or a Real Concept? -- Thus Spoke de Saussure -- But Also Thus Spoke de Saussure -- De Saussure and Frege -- Structuralistic Linguistics after de Saussure -- Structuralistic Philosophy -- Parts, Wholes and Structures: Prolegomena to Formal Theory -- Abstraction -- Part-Whole Systems and Compositionality -- Actual and Potential Infinity -- The Principle of Compositionality of Meaning -- The Birth of Values out of Identifies and Oppositions -- Appendix I: Mereology and 'Structurology' -- Appendix II: The Birth of the Structural as an Algebraic Fact -- Appendix III: Structure as a Matter of Relations and Operations -- Structuralism of Postanalytic Philosophers -- Translation and Structure: Willard Van Orman Quine -- The Indeterminacy of Translation -- The Indeterminacy of Reference and the Ontological Relativity -- Language and Thought -- Quine's Behaviorism -- Quine's Pragmatism -- Quine's Holism -- Translation and Structure -- Universe of Discourse and Ontological Commitments -- The Analytic and the Synthetic.