Whither extensions?

Mind and Language 35 (2):237-250 (2020)
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Abstract

Paul Pietroski develops an iconoclastic account of linguistic meaning. Here, I invite him to say more about what it implies about the relations between language, truth, and conceptual content. Readers concerned with securing the objectivity of conceptual thought may be worried about his claims that typical concepts “have no extensions” and that they “fit one another better than they fit the world.” Others might applaud his anti‐extensionalism in natural‐language semantics but fear that his account re‐raises familiar problems about extensions at the level of psychology.

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David Pereplyotchik
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Responses to comments on Conjoining meanings.Paul Pietroski - 2020 - Mind and Language 35 (2):266-273.

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