L’idea di linguaggio di Giovanni Vailati

Among the aims of Vailati’s philosophy of language, the main one is to emphasize expressive ambiguity and verbal misunderstandings, as from interpretation of the term ‘pragmatism’ and prejudice of empirical evidence with respect to hypotheses and reasoning. He exemplifies with infinitesimal calculus. Verbal language is considered in semiotic, thus syntactic, semantic and pragmatic perspective, outside phonocentric assumptions.