Abstract
John Stuart Mill is usually perceived — by no means incorrectly — as a pronounced adherent of later British empiricism. Yet, in the preceding chapters it became clear that this empiricism had almost no effect on his semantics; rather, he seems even consciously to have barred the door to specifically empiricist conceptions. The central part of Mill’s semantics could, in a manner of speaking, also have been formulated by a thinker from an entirely different philosophical tradition. In this chapter I attempt to throw some light on the backgrounds and causes of this state of affairs.
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© 1982 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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De Jong, W.R. (1982). Semantics and Metaphysics. In: The Semantics of John Stuart Mill. Synthese Historical Library, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7816-4_8
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