Study On John Stuart Mill's Theory Of Name

As an influential philosopher in nineteenth century,John Stuart Mill's philosophy of language is mainly manifested in the masterpiece of “A System of Logic”.But his thoughts of philosophy of language have not gotten widely concern and attention,the later generations has not studied his thoughts of philosophy of language comprehensive and thorough.Mill considered philosophy of language as an important part of logic and the neglect of study of language would lead the research of logic or even the whole philosophy to an unstable basis.Mill has analyzed the different classifications of names in detail and enumerated everything can be named.This laid a solid foundation for the subsequent research.The theory of name is an significant part of Mill's philosophy of language,without the study of names,the work of the basis of logic— proposition would be hard.Mill's theory of name has some contributions and controversies.Its contributions are that it plays an important role on development of philosophy of language ? philosophy and spread of knowledge.Its controversies are mainly manifested in the analyses of the meaning and reference of name,the general name and the proper name,the later philosophers have different understandings and criticisms.