Keyword: «name paradigm»

The change of attitude to language in the history of philosophy is considered. Classical philosophy has little interest in language: for it language must be an obedient tool of our mind, not affecting thinking and cognition. Non-classical philosophy questions the sovereignty of reason: language is considered in it as one of the factors that determines the mind at an unconscious level. Questions about the relationship between language and thinking, language and reality are undoubtedly philosophical in nature. Considering them, we reflect the universal conditions of our experience. Kant considered the analysis of these conditions as the task of transcendental philosophy. Language and its influence on our spiritual activity cannot be viewed from the outside as an ordinary object.