Abstract:

Although there are many different theories about the origin of language, it is worth noting that language is primarily a means of communication between people, and most importantly, a carrier of meaning. For this reason, many philosophers and thinkers have made various studies from the past to the present on the effects of language in terms of society's ability to live together and protect and develop itself. The main topics discussed in the philosophy of language can be mentioned such as meaning, referent, thought-language relationship, speech acts, specific descriptions. One of the most important issues in language is the subject of meaning. When the nature, relativity, nature of the meaning expressed as a whole by the expressions in the language and many aspects of the meaning are evaluated, it is seen that the meaning emerges as a "problem". In our study, the problem of meaning is handled within the framework of the thoughts of Kant, Frege and Wittgenstein. While the ideas that these three selected names developed on the problem of meaning from similar and different aspects were presented, the framework of meaning in the philosophical literature was tried to be drawn beforehand, and then the views and theories were presented with various examples.

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