The Tenability of Meaning Irrealism

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Title

The Tenability of Meaning Irrealism

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University of Otago

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The Kripke-Wittgenstein (KW) sceptical argument, presented in Chapter 2 of Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (1982), concludes that there are no meaning facts. While realism has been denied for a great many subject matters, the meaning irrealism motivated by KW’s argument has particularly far-reaching consequences. This thesis is an investigation into some of these consequences, in an effort to determine what is at stake in accepting the argument as sound. In Chapter 2, I su...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2019

Creator

Butler, Finn

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/9482

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Philosophy of language / realism / anti-realism / meaning scepticism / rule-following / kripke's wittgenstein / metaphysics

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