Word and world practice and the foundations of language /

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Main Author: Hanna, Patricia
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Harrison, Bernard, 1933-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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.