Word and world practice and the foundations of language /
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Cambridge University Press,
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.