Philosophy of Language, Medieval
Mark Amsler
Early medieval philosophy of language (fourth to late 11th centuries) was focused on ‘grammatical platonism’ and language's relationship reality universals. During the Carolingian era, some grammarians philosophers incorporated dialectic into their discussions as a signifying system. By 12th century, combined grammatical questions Aristotelian logic produce moderate realist theory language, in which words signify concepts directly external indirectly. Speculative located universal grammar mind representation properties things, but nominalists critiqued ultrarealist theories by arguing that referred only mental meaning determined speech contexts.
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