Keeping up appearances
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objects—‘Santa Claus is fat’ has one kind of semantic interpretation, while ‘Bob is fat’ has another. Meanwhile ‘pretense’ theories face the problem (among others) that no pretense seems to be going on at all when we say ‘Santa Claus doesn’t exist’. See Ludlow 1999 pg. 71, and also Brown, 2009, ch. 2. (Even so, such theories may actually be providing the most objectively simple 50 explanations possible, given the objective complexity of their explananda. In this sense the facts they offer as explanations—whether articulated concisely in the language of the special science or laboriously in the fundamental language— may be the most explanatory facts available.)
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