Putnam's Internal Realism: A Radical Restatement

Lieven Decock; Igor Douven

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Putnam's Internal Realism: A Radical Restatement

Lieven Decock, Igor Douven^*

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Putnam's internal realism is aimed at reconciling realist and antirealist intuitions about truth and the nature of reality. A common complaint about internal realism is that it has never been stated with due precision. This paper attempts to render the position precise by drawing on the literature on conceptual spaces as well as on earlier work of the authors on the notion of identity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	111-120
Number of pages	10
Journal	Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy
Volume	31
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-011-9105-8
Publication status	Published - Apr-2012

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Putnam
Internal realism
Conceptual spaces
Identity
Incommensurability
SIMILARITY

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