?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Realism%2C+model+theory%2C+and+linguistic+semantics&rft.creator=Abbott%2C+B&rft.creator=Hauser%2C+L&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=George+Lakoff+(in+his+book+Women%2C+Fire%2C+and+Dangerous+Things(1987)+and+the+paper+%22Cognitive+semantics%22+(1988))+champions+some+radical+foundational+views.+Strikingly%2C+Lakoff+opposes+realism+as+a+metaphysical+position%2C+favoring+instead+some+supposedly+mild+form+of+idealism+such+as+that+recently+espoused+by+Hilary+Putnam%2C+going+under+the+name+%22internal+realism.%22+For+what+he+takes+to+be+connected+reasons%2C+Lakoff+also+rejects+truth+conditional+model-theoretic+semantics+for+natural+language.+This+paper+examines+an+argument%2C+given+by+Lakoff%2C+against+realism+and+MTS.+We+claim+that+Lakoff's+argument+has+very+little%2C+if+any%2C+impact+for+linguistic+semantics.&rft.date=1995&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F256%2F1%2Frealism.htm&rft.identifier=++Abbott%2C+B+and+Hauser%2C+L++(1995)+Realism%2C+model+theory%2C+and+linguistic+semantics.++%5BConference+Paper%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F256%2F