Word and World
This important book proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein. Rather, the link between language and world is a two-stage one, in which meaning is used and in which a natural language should be understood as fundamen… Celý popis ↓
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Word and World
This important book proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein. Rather, the link between language and world is a two-stage one, in which meaning is used and in which a natural language should be understood as fundamentally a collection of socially devised and maintained practices. The authors deny the existence of a direct referential relationship between words and things.
A provocative re-examination of the interrelations of language and social practice, this book will interest not only philosophers of language but also linguists, psycholinguists, students of communication and all those concerned with the nature and acquisition of human linguistic capacities. Arguing against the philosophical mainstream descending from Frege and Russell to Quine, Davidson, Dummett, McDowell, Evans, Putnam, Kripke and others, the authors demonstrate that discarding the notion of reference does not entail relativism or semantic nihilism.
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