The Semantic Realism/Anti-Realism Dispute and Knowledge of Meanings

Here the relationship between understanding and knowledge of meaning is discussed from two different perspectives: that of Dummettian semantic anti-realism and that of the semantic externalism of Putnam and others. The question addressed is whether or not the truth of semantic externalism would unde...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Panu Raatikainen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2010-11-01
Series:The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v5i0.287