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make certain kinds of noises, and what kinds of noises to make when cir-
cumstances are appropriate for doing so. Linguistic practice is governed by
highly complex sets of rules, even though the rules are rarely articulated;
small children just pick them up at a colossal rate, learning to obey them
without realizing that that is what they are doing.
These home truths are obscured by entity theories, which treat meanings
as static, inert things. Both Wittgenstein and Austin inveighed at length
against entity theories, though here we shall be concerned with a positive
account of "use." Wittgenstein also scorned the view that meaning essentially
involves referential relations between linguistic expressions and things in the
world (though of course he did not deny that there are some such relations).
Wittgenstein offered the key analogy of linguistic activity to the playing
of games. (According to the physicist Freeman Dyson, then a Cambridge
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