Sellars-Harman Correspondence
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Description: Correspondence between Wilfrid Sellars and Gilbert Harman on truth. Illuminating discussion on the issue of whether a Tarskian semantics provides an adequate basis for a correspondence theory of truth.
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN WILFRID SELLARS AND GILBERT HARMAN ON TRUTH I have read and reread your insightful and challenging review of , and have been accumulating notes, I won't say for a reply, but for a first attempt at rising to your closing challenge. I shall concentrate on the points you raise concerning meaning and truth, leaving to another occasion topics which, though important, do not touch the very heart of the enterprise. Thus I shall not discuss your comments on the availability and/or adequacy of concepts of thinking-out-loud and its modes as models for the construction of a theoretical framework which introduce classical thought-episodes. I certainly did not mean to imply that all the thinking of Jones' Rylean contemporaries was thinking-out-loud, but only that they did more of it than we do. Most of their thinking would be, in the terminology of my "Language as Thought and as Communication," extremely short term proximate propensities to think such and such out loud. (I thought I had made this clear in
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