Lexicon of Arguments

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III 122
Absoluteness/absolute reality/PutnamVsDescartes: the representatives of absoluteness have the wrong tendency to equate secondary qualities with the sensation of secondary qualities. Even Williams seems to assume a picture of the world without colors.
>Reality, >Quality, >Sensation, >Perception, >Sensory impression.
Williams: Williams ideally assumes a "theory of knowledge and of error".
>Recognition, >World/Thinking,
>Bernard Williams.
III 132
Absolute Reality/Williams: absolute reality tells us, but not foreign scientists, how we understand it.
Cf. >Reality/Maturana.
PutnamVs: so absolute reality exists only locally.
Absolute Reality/Putnam: absolute reality would also require convergence.
QuineVsConvergence: convergence has an inscrutability of reference. >Inscrutability, >convergence.
III 134
Absolute Reality/Williams: absolute reality functions without normative terms.
PutnamVs: precisely this leads to the problem of indeterminacy of translation.
Putnam: many true descriptions of the world in different vocabularies are possible.
>Vocabulary.

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