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This book is about what ten renowned philosophers and/or linguists as well as the author think about language and how we have to investigate it. After summarizing and evaluating the major eleven works of those ten thinkers on the topic in question, the author attempts to answer the question whether a science of language is possible based on his assessment of the above eleven works as well as of the opinions expressed by Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn, two of the most eminent names in the philosophy of science.

Taking into account the basic principles of linguistics and the philosophy of science, this book challenges the stubborn dualistic dogmatism of religious beliefs still dominating present day intellectual life by pointing the way from the materialistic foundation of human existence directly to the moral axioms of social behaviour.