Journal Title
Title of Journal: Erkenn
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Authors: T Parent
Publish Date: 2016/08/23
Volume: 82, Issue: 3, Pages: 625-639
Abstract
Externalism holds that the content of our utterances and thoughts are determined partly by the environment Here I offer an argument which suggests that externalism is incompatible with a natural view about ontological commitment–namely the Quinean view that such commitments are fixed by the range of the variables in your theory The idea briefly is that if Oscar mistakenly believes that water = XYZ the externalist ontologically commits Oscar to two watery kinds In contrast the Quinean commits him to one such kind albeit a metaphysically impossible kind The penultimate section addresses a variety of objections to the argument
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