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work_jsry5336ebdhlpktae32ykuxl4	Mathias Frisch	Van Fraassen's Dissolution of Putnam's Model-Theoretic Argument	1999	7	.pdf	application/pdf	3038	196	70	Bas van Fraassen has recently argued for a "dissolution" of Hilary Putnam's wellknown model-theoretic argument. In a series of recent papers on Hilary Putnam's well-known modeltheoretic argument, Bas van Fraassen has argued that it is a mistake Van Fraassen believes that if we take our pragmatic situation as speakers of a meaningful language seriously, Putnam's alleged paradox does not arise. In his discussion of Putnam's argument, van Fraassen follows David Lewis calls the conclusion of Putnam's argument a "paradox," presumably because Lewis takes global descriptivism to be an intuitively plausible theory of reference and yet this theory But, Putnam would argue that this metalanguage would go the way of all theory: The referents of its terms van Fraassen, because Putnam asks us to consider the equivalent question for our own language: Does "cat" refer to cats? Van Fraassen's Dissolution of Putnam's Model-Theoretic Argument [pp. Van Fraassen's Dissolution of Putnam's Model-Theoretic Argument [pp.	./cache/work_jsry5336ebdhlpktae32ykuxl4.pdf	./txt/work_jsry5336ebdhlpktae32ykuxl4.txt