Metaphysical Naturalism, Semantic Normativity, and Meta-Semantic Irrealism
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Semantic discourse-discourse employing notions like meaning and truth-gives rise to questions about the semantics, metaphysics, and epistemology of such notions: What sort of metaphysical commitments does semantic discourse (as ordinarily used) involve? Does such discourse commit us to the existence of semantic properties and facts? If so, are there such properties and facts?
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