A Plea for Semantic Localism

Noûs 47 (4):647-679 (2011)
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The purpose of this paper is to defend a conception of language that does not rely on linguistic meanings, and use it to address the Sorites and Liar paradoxes

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10.1111/j.1468-0068.2011.00846.x

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