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Meaning and Metaphysical Realism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

James O. Young
James O. Young
Affiliation:
University of Victoria
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Philosophy , Volume 63 , Issue 243 , January 1988 , pp. 114 - 118
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1988

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References

1 Smart, J. J. C., ‘Realism v. Idealism’, Philosophy 61 (1986), 295–312. All numbers in parentheses refer to pages of this article.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Many anti-realists restrict an anti-realist theory of meaning to certain classes of sentences, sentences about other minds or sentences about the past, for example. For a discussion of how anti-realism could be unrestricted see my ‘Global Anti-realism’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (1987), 641–647.Google Scholar

3 In writing this essay I profited from the criticisms of Jeff Foss.