Abstract

Chapter Eight considers putative problems that a Kantian account of meaning faces. Most striking are the relativism of the empirical world, possible plurality of empirical worlds, and possible movability between empirical worlds. In each case the chapter considers whether the putative problems are genuine and if so offers multiple replies. Hence it shows that there is even more reason to prefer a Kantian account of meaning to other such accounts. Finally the chapter shows in Kant’s own spirit that Kantianism entails a “unity of reason”—a unity among empirical concepts, terms, and properties, as well as epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics themselves.