What was the title of Gellner's first book?
Words and Things
Thoughts and Entities
Concepts and Realities
Voices and Silence
Answer
Words and Things was the title of Gellner's first book. The book was a critique of linguistic philosophy, and it argued that language is not a mirror of reality, but rather a tool that we use to construct our understanding of the world.
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