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I (d) 72
Putnam: Microstructure similarities provide the determination of the reference (DavidsonVs: why should that be the only determining similarity?)
Externalism/DavidsonVsPutnam: Putnam's externalism applies primarily to words for natural species such as "water" and "leopard". The idea behind this is that I identify these objects through the microstructure. >Externalism, >Natural kinds, >Identification.
I (d) 73
DavidsonVsPutnam: but I don't see why the equality of the microstructure should necessarily be the decisive similarity that determines the reference of a word like water.
There is no reason to limit externalism to a single category or to a few. It is generally characteristic of language and thought that their connection with the world emerges as the kind of causal connections I have discussed.
>Causality/Davidson.

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