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I wrote a small concept map for this text. It’s on my wiki.

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 Yesterday evening I gave a speech entitled “Proper Names: a Problem in the Philosophy of Language” for Gerusija in the student culture center “Bunker”.
I gave a short overview in excerpts of the question “How does language hook up to the world” with the stations:

sharing a form: Aristotle and Wittgenstein
Dialectical inspired conceptions of the relationship “signifier [...]

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Juliet Floyd: Putnam’s “The Meaning of ‘Meaning’”: Externalism in Historical Context
(published in Hilary Putnam / edited by Yemima Ben-Menahem, Cambridge University Press 2005)
Floyd’s paper begins with an overview of main characteristics of Putnam’s externalism which he offers in his “Meaning of ‘Meaning’”. She subsumes them under three major points:

Meaning “is object- or reality-involving”, in [...]

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