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Semantic externalism

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  1. Asserting that the proper work of man "consists in the active exercise of the mental capacities conformably to reason," he concludes that "the supreme good of man will consist in performing this work with excellence or virtue: herein he will obtain happiness." And he finds confirmation for his view in its correspondence with views previously enunciated; saying, "our notion nearly agrees with theirs who place…

    Herbert Spencer, The Data of Ethics

    Close in meaning to Semantic externalism; the term itself is not named.

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  2. Again in this case the most striking proof for the close connection between these two principles is given by the apperceptive combinations, especially in the forms of logical processes of thought, as they are expressed in the combination of sentences in speech. The thought-content of a sentence stands first of all, as we saw above, as a whole in our consciousness, but not yet as an ideational compound raised to…

    Wilhelm Max Wundt, An Introduction to Psychology Translated from the Second German Edition

    States what Semantic externalism is.

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  3. My general attitude will be shown by the first comment. Concepts are only means of denoting fragments of experience directly or indirectly given. If we then try to speak of a "nature of a thing" two interpretations of this expression are possible. The "thing" as such is only a bit of reality which some motive, that without undue extension of the term can be called practical, has led us to treat as more or less…

    John Dewey, Creative Intelligence

    Close in meaning to Semantic externalism; the term itself is not named.

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