Quote: meaning is not in the head; consider Twin Earth where only metallurgists know that the names and usages of aluminum and molybdenum were switched

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Let us now modify our science-fiction story. I … by an expert. … We will now suppose that molybdenum is as … Earth as molybdenum is on Earth. In particular, … we shall assume that the words 'aluminum' and … If a spaceship from Earth visited Twin Earth, … Earth were not made of aluminum, especially when … An Earthian metallurgist could tell very easily that … … Whereas in 1750 no one on either Earth … only a part of the linguistic community involved. … Again we see that the psychological state of …   Google-1   Google-2

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