Word and world [electronic resource] : practice and the foundations of language / Patricia Hanna, Bernard Harrison.
Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: xii, 420 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 401 21
- P107 .H36 2004eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-397) and index.
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.
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