more on this theme | more from this thinker | more from this text
Full Idea
The internalist version of inferentialist semantics has particular difficulty in establishing an adequate relation between meaning and reference.
Gist of Idea
Internalist inferentialism has trouble explaining how meaning and reference relate
Source
Timothy Williamson (Knowledge First (and reply) [2014], p.6)
Book Ref
'Contemporary Debates in Epistemology (2nd ed)', ed/tr. Steup/Turri/Sosa [Wiley Blackwell 2014], p.6
A Reaction
I would have thought that this was a big problem for referentialist semantics too, though evidently Williamson doesn't think so. If he is saying that the meaning is in the external world, dream on.
Related Ideas
Idea 19533 Inferentialist semantics relies on internal inference relations, not on external references [Williamson]
Idea 19534 How does inferentialism distinguish the patterns of inference that are essential to meaning? [Williamson]