Sellars and the measure of all things

Philosophical Studies 34 (4):381 - 400 (1978)
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Argues that Sellars' theories can be seen as an elaborate argument for scientific realism as an almost-transcendental condition for the meaningfulness of language.

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Concepts as involving laws and inconceivable without them.Wilfrid Sellars - 1948 - Philosophy of Science 15 (October):287-313.
Is there a synthetic a priori?Wilfrid Sellars - 1953 - Philosophy of Science 20 (2):121-138.
Truth and "correspondence".Wilfrid Sellars - 1962 - Journal of Philosophy 59 (2):29-56.
Particulars.Wilfrid Sellars - 1952 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 13 (2):184-199.
Naming and saying.Wilfrid Sellars - 1962 - Philosophy of Science 29 (1):7-26.

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