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Acknowledgments
Realism and the Correspondence Theory
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Pragmatism and Vericationism
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xiv Acknowledgments
Deationary Views and Their Critics
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the author and the publisher.
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author and the publisher.
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Primitivism, Identity Theory, and Alethic Pluralism
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Society.
Acknowledgments xv
Hilary Putnam. ``The Face of Cognition.'' Presented as part of the Dewey
Lectures of 1994, ``Sense, Nonsense, and the Senses: An Inquiry into the
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Note: In preparing previously published essays for this volume, I have
engaged in minor editing.
xvi Acknowledgments
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