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Semantic localism is the view of meaning defended by Michael Devitt in Coming to Our Senses. In this paper I assess this view by considering how well it answers the concerns that led Akeel Bilgrami in Belief and Meaning to put forward his thesis of the locality of content.
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Bilgrami, Akeel.: 1992, Belief and Meaning, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.
Devitt, Michael.: 1996, Coming to Our Senses, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Devitt, Michael and Kim Sterelny.: 1993, Language and Reality, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
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Talmage, C.J.L. Semantic Localism and the Locality of Content. Erkenntnis 48, 105–115 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005375719954
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005375719954