Abstract

In this paper, I will first develop certain semantic questions underlying the internal realism, specially with respect to the rejection of the idea of independence from reality, in relation to the language . Next, I will point out that Putnam´s position in the “Dewey Lectures” –his latest position- intends to recover the notion of independence inherent in common sense, that, as we will try to demonstrate, is consistent with what Hintikka calls “weak thesis of semantic ineffability” . Finally, according to this interpretation, Putnam would not reject the idea of independence any longer, but only the idea, which he attributes to the metaphysical realism and not to the natural one, that the world is a fixed whole or a super-reality