Lewis’s Global Descriptivism and Reference Magnetism
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According to Putnam’s model-theoretic argument, an epistemically ideal theory cannot fail to be true. Lewis contends that all the argument really shows is that an epistemically ideal theory must be true provided a certain theory of reference—which he terms Global Descriptivism—is the whole truth about reference, which he emphatically denies. In this note it is argued that Lewis grants Putnam to...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Australasian Journal of Philosophy
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0004-8402,1471-6828
DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2019.1619792