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abstract: "George Lakoff (in his book Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things(1987) and the paper \"Cognitive semantics\" (1988)) champions some radical foundational views. Strikingly, Lakoff opposes realism as a metaphysical position, favoring instead some supposedly mild form of idealism such as that recently espoused by Hilary Putnam, going under the name \"internal realism.\" For what he takes to be connected reasons, Lakoff also rejects truth conditional model-theoretic semantics for natural language. This paper examines an argument, given by Lakoff, against realism and MTS. We claim that Lakoff's argument has very little, if any, impact for linguistic semantics."
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conference: 1995 Annual Meeting Linguistics Society of America
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title: 'Realism, model theory, and linguistic semantics'
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