people are forever deciding that what makes sense to them is what's natural and the complications seeping around the edges of it are unnatural, a betrayal, perversity, why we can't have nice things i'd get mad at how dumb it is except it's obviously natural that they'd do that
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It's a good introduction to his work, but it's also an undergraduate philosophy textbook. I adore his 1979 monograph Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind, it's equally short and equally lucid, and spells out an early form of his semantic theory in detail.
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But since he has written a lot of stuff since then, and worked hard on it, it would be criminal of me not to mention Plato's Camera. It's not as short as SR&tPoM, but summarizes much of his later work that the earlier works can't even mention.
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