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Is there a deductive argument for semantic externalism? Reply to Yli-Vakkuri

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posted on 2023-06-09, 09:16 authored by Sarah SawyerSarah Sawyer
Juhani Yli-Vakkuri (2017) has recently argued that the Twin Earth thought experiments offered in favour of semantic externalism can be replaced by a straightforward deductive argument from premises widely accepted by both internalists and externalists alike. The deductive argument Yli-Vakkuri offers, however, depends on premises which are such that, on standard formulations of internalism, they cannot be satisfied by a single belief simultaneously; it does not therefore, constitute a proof of externalism. The aim of this paper is to explain why.

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0003-2638

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Oxford University Press

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4

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78

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675-681

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2017-12-11

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2020-02-26

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2017-12-11

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