I review the literature on artifactual semantics, highlighting the limitations of some externalist accounts. I propose a pluralist account, on which some artifactual kind words have an externalist semantics, others have an internalist semantics, still others are Wittgensteinian family names.

Pencils Have a Point. Against Generalized Externalism About Artifactual Words

MARCONI, Diego
2013-01-01

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I review the literature on artifactual semantics, highlighting the limitations of some externalist accounts. I propose a pluralist account, on which some artifactual kind words have an externalist semantics, others have an internalist semantics, still others are Wittgensteinian family names.
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