What role does ordinary language play in philosophical theorizing today? One might think: little. After all, analytic philosophy has moved past its “ordinary language” phase; metaphysics, for example, few would think that attending to “time” and related words anything teach us about the nature of, how we persist through, time. The aim of this paper, however, is argue contemporary pays more atte...

Philosophers of language investigate foundational questions about the nature of linguistic communication. Much language that uses probabilistic vocabulary—in particular, what I’ll call the language of subjective uncertainty—bears on these questions in important and distinctive ways. Better understanding how the language of subjective uncertainty works will help us get a better picture of the ge...

Starting point is that the chapter should address both philosophical and methodological issues as well as systematic questions concerning the nature and the role of the concept of information in philosophy of language and linguistic semantics. Whenever possible it should do treat both aspects in close connection: we will focus on systematic issues that illustrate a philosophical concern or a me...