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OLP

OLP is the initialism of ordinary language philosophy.

Meaning of ordinary language philosophy

Noun

ordinary language philosophy (countable and uncountable, plural ordinary language philosophies)

  1. A philosophical methodology that sees traditional philosophical problems as rooted in misunderstandings resulting from philosophers distorting or forgetting how words are ordinarily used to convey meaning in non-philosophical contexts.

Questions about OLP

What is OLP the initialism of?
OLP is the initialism of ordinary language philosophy.

Words near OLP in the dictionary

  1. olotera
  2. oloteras
  3. Olowalu
  4. oloye
  5. oloyes
  6. OLP
  7. olpadronate
  8. olpadronic acid
  9. olpae
  10. olpai
  11. OLPC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: OLP (page history and authors); ordinary language philosophy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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