TY - BOOK AU - Hanna,Patricia AU - Harrison,Bernard ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Word and world: practice and the foundations of language AV - P107 .H36 2004eb U1 - 401 21 PY - 2004/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophy KW - Reference (Linguistics) KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10124696 ER -