The Meaning of ‘Meaning’.

Putnam, H. (1975). The Meaning of ‘Meaning’. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 215-271.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1975

Link

https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/185225/7-03_Putnam.pdf

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philosophy

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Essentialism
  • Locke's Essay (1689) distinguishing real essence (underlying physical basis of the properties of a kind) from nominal essence (the abstract idea associated with the kind-term ); Putnam's Twin Earth arguments (Twin Earth water is XYZ, not H2O, showing meaning "ain't in the head"

Domain-specific

• A Posteriori Necessity
  • Externalism ranges more broadly than necessary a posteriori truths, while the necessary-a-posteriori category also includes proper-name identities not dependent on the full Twin Earth apparatus.

    This sourcePrimary source for Twin Earth, semantic externalism, natural-kind reference, and the water example.

• Causal Theory of Reference
  • The content of “water” is not determined solely by a speaker's internal stereotype; environment and linguistic history help determine what the term picks out.

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