Putnam’s Model-Theoretic Argument Reconstructed

Journal of Philosophy 96 (9):479-490 (1999)
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Putnam's model theoretic argument against metaphysical realism can be reconstructed as valid, with premises acceptable to the realist. There is no illegitimate assumption that the causal theory of reference is false.

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