The Scandal of Semantic Platonism
In James Maclaurin (ed.), Rationis Defensor (2012)
| Abstract | The paper raises doubts concerning tenability of the platonistic conception of linguistic meaning. It gives examples of some problems that philosophers who employ entities from the realm of platonic objects as a kind of unexplained explainer tend to neglect. | |||||||||
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