Reblogging this because we're still trying to understand bits of On the Origin of Objects in the comments... please come and join in if you actually understand this book!https://drossbucket.wordpress.com/2019/10/24/the-middle-distance/ …
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Putnam was writing just as logical positivism collapsed. His "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" is taken (with Kuhn) as its official tombstone. It was a huge deal at the time, because "no clothes!" but in retrospect it's terribly confused.
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"Meaning and Reference" was also huge and points out some more of the problems with the analytic/logicist story, but it's also badly confused. Historically important but on the whole I would recommend skipping it.
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