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.
Do you mean this literally or as analogies? Non-cognitivism has nothing to say about electrons
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It's an analogy where electrons ~ representations. (Of course, I'm being slightly uncharitable here.) In my own view representations are prominent, but they are inexact, incomplete and distributed, which I guess may prompt a 'they're not really representation' response...
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Oh, yeah, I think Dreyfus went wrong with a “there are no representations at all” line (and Phil and I followed his lead briefly in ~1986 before recovering in ~1988). “Inexact incomplete & distributed” is roughly “nebulous”… but I would go further and say >
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