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On Saying What There Is

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

John Heil
John Heil
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Cornell University
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Philosophy , Volume 56 , Issue 216 , April 1981 , pp. 242 - 247
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1981

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References

1 Wilkerson, T. E., Minds, Brains and People (oxford:Oxford University Press, 1974), 166Google Scholar f.Wilkerson' position is elaborated in Chapter 8 of the book

2 Kuhn, Thomas, for example, seems sometimes to want to defend a fairly robust form of conventionalism (cf. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd edn (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970)Google Scholar; especially Chapter 10, 111 and 117).

3 Wittgenstein, L., Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. Pears, D. and McGuinness, B. F. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961), 6. 341.Google Scholar

4 Cf. The Critique of Pure Reason, A405/B430ff., especially A444/B472ff.

5 Cf. e.g., Fodor, Jerry, The Language of Thought (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1975).Google Scholar