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Full Idea
For cooler heads there must be some middle view between "meanings remain and beliefs change" and "meanings change whenever beliefs do".
Gist of Idea
Can meanings remain the same when beliefs change?
Source
Richard Rorty (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature [1980], 6.2)
Book Ref
Rorty,Richard: 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' [Blackwell 1980], p.271
A Reaction
The second one seems blatanty false. How could we otherwise explain a change in belief? But obviously some changes in belief (e.g. about electrons) produce a change in meaning.