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Chapter One emphasized that names relate concepts to the world of referents. Theories are complexes of names and they function in the same way. The uses of names change as knowledge of the world progresses. Einstein’s theory of relativity could be used because physicists knew how the names in the theory applied to the world of referents.
The first version of this article appeared in The World and I in August 1992. A later version appeared in Kaplan (1998c, pp. 141–153). This version has been adapted to my position in this book.
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Kaplan, M.A., Hamati-Ataya, I. (2014). The Nature of Reality as Illuminated by Quantum Physics. In: Transcending Postmodernism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137358578_6
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