Putnam, languages and worlds
Dialectica 55 (2):167–174 (2001)
| Abstract | The key argument of Hilary Putnam for conceptual relativism, his so-called mereological argument, is critically evaluated. It is argued that Putnam’s reasoning is based on confusion between languages and theories. | |||||||||
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