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Is there a path half-way between realism and verificationism?

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I am grateful to a number of people. To Ettore Casari, Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara for having invited me to the Conference on Theories of Meaning. To Ermanno Bencivenga, Richard Carter, Daniel Dennett, Robert M. Harnish, Jaakko Hintikka, Paul Horwich, Charles Larmore, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Dag Prawitz, Hilary Putnam, François Recanati, Charles Travis and Bas Van Fraassen for comments on this paper.

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Jacob, P. Is there a path half-way between realism and verificationism?. Synthese 73, 531–547 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00484991

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