Tables of Contents for Word and World

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Introduction

Part I. Scepticism and Language: 1. The prison-house of language

2. Referential realism

3. Out of the prison-house

Part II. Names and Their Bearers: 4. Russell's principle and Wittgenstein's slogan

5. The name-tracking network

6. Rigidity

7. Description and causes

8. Knowledge of rules

Part III. Propositions: 9. Meaning and truth

10. Truth and use

11. Unnatural kinds

12. Necessity and 'grammar'

Part IV. Paradoxes of Interpretation: 13. Indeterminacy of translation

14. Linguistic competence

15. Paradox and substitutivity

Epilogue.