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The ideas in this paper were originally developed during the course of a graduate seminar I taught at the University of Utah during Autumn Quarter 1989; I owe a debt of gratitude to the 10 students who so faithfully followed my philosophical journey through Rosenberg's books. I owe a special debt to my colleague. Virgil Aldrich, who attended every session, and made each one better than it otherwise would have been. The paper would never have taken its final form had it not been for the influence of Bernard Harrison's insightful work on Wittgenstein, bothTractatus andPhilosophical Investigations. His interpretation of the private language argument gave me the means to make my final argument against Rosenberg. (Although I got my “Harrison” from conversations, his views appear in ‘Wittgenstein and Scepticism,’Meaning-Scepticism, Dr. Klaus Puhl, ed., Berlin: de Gruyter, 1990). I would also like to thank William Whisner and L. Rex Sears for their helpful comments on an earlier version of the paper.
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Hanna, P. The world, the elephant and the tortoise. Philosophia 23, 289–307 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02379861
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