तर्क, सत्य और इतिहास

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A book of 1981 in which Putnam sets out his “internal realism”. The first chapter imagines that we are brains in a vat, fed experiences by a computer, and argues that the hypothesis refutes itself: if we were such brains, our words “brain” and “vat” would not refer to real brains and vats, so we could not even state it truly. Putnam rejects both metaphysical realism – the idea of a “God’s eye view” of a ready-made world – and relativism; truth is rational acceptability under idealised conditions. Later chapters extend the argument to ethics and reject a sharp distinction between facts and values. Putnam himself gave up internal realism in the 1990s.

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• “अर्थ” का अर्थ1975 · हिलरी पट्नम

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• प्रथम दर्शन पर मेडिटेशन्स1641 · रने देकार्त

हिलरी पट्नम की और कृतियाँ

• 1975“अर्थ” का अर्थ