Hanna, Patricia.

Word and world practice and the foundations of language / [electronic resource] : Patricia Hanna, Bernard Harrison. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. - xii, 420 p.

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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Language and languages--Philosophy.
Reference (Linguistics)


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