| Description |
xii, 420 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-397) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy. |
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Reference (Linguistics)
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Reference (Linguistics) |
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Langage et langues -- Philosophie. |
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Référence (Linguistique) |
| Added Author |
Harrison, Bernard, 1933-
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| ISBN |
0521822874 hardback |
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0521537444 paperback |
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