Lexicon of Arguments

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Rorty I 300
Reference: when we abandon the notion of meaning (like Feyerabend does) then we abandon the reference as determined by the importance. (The idea that "defining attributes pick out" the referent of an expression.)
Rorty I 300
Neither Kuhn nor Feyerabend have denied the need for a theory of reference. However, they suggest that in reality we understand only a concept of "truth" and "reference" that is relativized to a "conceptual system". >Reference systems, >Theories, >Observation language, >Observation sentences.
Rorty I 300
Neither Quine nor Sellars, nor Kuhn, nor Feyerabend still think that there should be an observation language comon to all alternative systems of concepts. But then the empirical idea had to be dropped, that one could at any time specify operational definitions of theoretical terms. >Theoretical terms.

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