Philosophical Topics 20 (1):49-83 (1992)
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Failure to recognize the "realistic" motivations for Putnam's commitment to internal realism has led to a widely shared misunderstanding of Putnam's arguments against metaphysical realism. Realist critics of these arguments frequently offer rebuttals that fail to confront his arguments. Simply put, Putnam's arguments --the brains in a vat argument as well as the model-theoretic argument -- are "reductios" that are intended to show that "metaphysical realism itself is not sufficiently realistic". If that claim can be substantiated then Putnam can go on to argue that his own view is, by comparison, more realistic than metaphysical realism.
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Keywords | hilary putnam internal realism metaphysical realism model-theoretic argument BIV argument semantic realism radical skepticism antirealism |
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ISBN(s) | 0276-2080 |
DOI | 10.5840/philtopics19922013 |
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