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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Manifestability and semantic realism |
Author: | Gamble, D. |
Citation: | Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2003; 84(1):1-23 |
Publisher: | Blackwell Publ Ltd |
Issue Date: | 2003 |
ISSN: | 0279-0750 0031-5621 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Denise Gamble |
Abstract: | This paper provides a critical discussion of Alexander Miller's recent attack on antirealist arguments against semantic realism that are based on manifestability requirements. Miller attempts to defend semantic realism against Wright-Hale arguments from manifestability. He does so in reliance on a McDowell type assertion-truth platitude. This paper argues in both general terms and in relation to the details of Miller's argument, that attempts to defend semantic realism while accepting a Dummettian-Wittgensteinian framework on theories of meaning, are misconceived and likely to fail, as I believe is true in Miller's case. Semantic realism is best defended within a context of metaphysical realism, and naturalistic-causal theories of meaning and explanation. |
Description: | The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com |
DOI: | 10.1111/1468-0114.00159 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0114.00159 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Philosophy publications |
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