Searching for the Meaning

The method used for finding out the meaning of a term or phrase is of great importance. The different views about the meaning of some philosophical terms, such as "analytical" and "synthetic", led linguists to concentrate on the "method of finding the meaning". In order to find out the meaning, linguists used different methods including conceptual method, extentional method, and pre-theoretical intuition method. The pre – theoretical intuitions method has been proposed by one of the philosophers of analytical philosophy based on a kind of introspection and two principles used in linguistics. These principles state that language acquisition is a matter of skill development and speech is a kind of systematic behavior. The studies show that, the pre-theoretical intuitions method is very close to the theory of "Tabador" (occurrence of meaning to someone) a theory about meanings proposed by scholars of methodology.