Word and world : practice and the foundations of language /
"A provocative reexamination of the interrelations of language and social practice, this book will interest not only philosophers of language but also literary theorists, linguists, psycholinguists, students of communication, and all those concerned with the nature and acquisition of human ling...
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2004
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Table of Contents:
- Scepticism and Language: The prison-house of language
- Referential realism
- Out of the prison-house
- Names and Their Bearers: Russell's principle and Wittgenstein's slogan
- The name-tracking network
- Rigidity
- Description and causes
- Knowledge of rules
- Propositions: Meaning and truth
- Truth and use
- Unnatural kinds
- Necessity and 'grammar'
- Paradoxes of Interpretation:
- Indeterminacy of translation
- Linguistic competence
- Paradox and substitutivity.
