Question
A paper claims that “cut the pie any way you like” and this slogan will still be true before stating a “socio-linguistic hypothesis” about the “division of linguistic labor.” For 10 points each:
[10m] State or paraphrase this slogan in support of semantic externalism. This slogan follows a thought experiment about two otherwise identical individuals who use the word “water” to refer respectively to H2O and XYZ.
ANSWER: meanings just ain’t in the head [accept meaning ain’t in the head or equivalent answers that indicate meaning is not (only) in the head]
[10h] Tyler Burge, who discussed Hilary Putnam’s Twin Earth example in the paper “Other Bodies,” gave a similar example about this condition to support social externalism. In that example from “Individualism and the Mental,” a patient wrongly tells his doctor that he has this specific condition.
ANSWER: arthritis in the thigh [accept tharthritis; accept answers that mention both arthritis and the thigh; prompt on arthritis]
[10e] A Fred Dretske paper on phenomenal externalism asks “if meanings ain’t in the head, where are” these entities. Daniel Dennett’s paper “Quining” these entities disputes the existence of these subjective sensory experiences.
ANSWER: qualia [or quale]
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