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Will_Sawin comments on What is/are the definition(s) of "Should"? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Peterdjones 01 June 2011 07:35:51PM 0 points [-]

This meaning, as we know from the litany of Tarski, comes from the world.

I can make no sense of that. That is about a theory truth, and it is a metalingusiic theory. I don't see how it adds up to content externalism as you seem to think.

Comment author: Will_Sawin 01 June 2011 08:02:32PM 0 points [-]

Not context externalism.

I'm arguing that, when I say "snow is white", the meaning of the terms I am using all refer to external stuff, so you can't reduce the claim that "snow is white" to a claim about my mental state.