Words and Things av Ernest Gellner

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<P>When Ernest Gellner was his early thirties, he took it upon himself to challenge the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, Linguistic Philosophy. Finding a powerful ally in Bertrand Russell, who provided the foreword for this book, Gellner embarked on the project that was to put him on the intellectual map. </P><P>The first determined attempt to state the premises and operational rules of the movement, <EM>Words and Things</EM> remains philosophy''s most devastating attack on a conventional wisdom to this day.</P>