The later work of Kuhn and Wittgenstein in particular were influential in the development of the Strong Program doctrine of "meaning finitism", according to which the meanings of terms are conceived as social institutions: the various ways in which they are used successfully in communication within a linguistic community.
Alternatively, it is possible that there is some external pressure to communicate in a particular way: perhaps as pressure from the linguistic community to conform to an already established signaling system used in other settings.
They require only that there be a widely shared disposition within the linguistic community to affirm the sentence in question.
Few can deny the emotional pull of the tribe, the nation, the linguistic community, or the difference of peoples, races, languages, cuisines, traditions and histories.
In any linguistic community the written language is a distinct and special dialect; usually there is more than one written dialect.
The deaf, DasGupta points out, consider themselves a linguistic community; disability is a frame others impose on them.
And although about 10 times as many books get translated out of English than into it – we are an insular linguistic community – we must salute the ingenuity of the translator's art.
These cities formed the epicentre of a vast trade network based on a common cultural and linguistic community, and built infrastructure to provide good standards of living for residents.
Thus, knowledge of word meaning, and membership in the linguistic community generally, is not a matter of knowing rules but only of sharing dispositions to apply words in something like the way other people do.
The sceptic's question, said Putnam, does not even make sense – given that she belongs to no linguistic community, thanks to her envattedness, she would not be referring to a brain when saying "brain", or to a vat when saying "vat".
The rules reflecting common usage, including even fundamental physical principles and the laws of logic themselves, may change, provided enough of the relevant linguistic community begins using old words in new ways.
