Metaphysical Realism and Thought

American Philosophical Quarterly 45 (2):149 - 163 (2008)
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In this paper I argue that the implications of semantic externalism (SE) are even more far-reaching than has heretofore been acknowledged. If SE is true, then it is possible that a thinker's mental reality has joints that cannot in principle be discerned by the thinker herself.

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