ABSTRACT In his 1975 paper “The Meaning of ‘Meaning’”, Hilary Putnam famously argued for semantic externalism. Little attention has been paid, however, to the fact that already in 1973, Putnam had presented the idea of the linguistic division of labour and the Twin Earth thought experiment in his comment on Wilfrid Sellars’ “Meaning as Functional Classification” at a conference, and Sellars had replied to Putnam from a broadly inferentialist perspective. The first half of this paper aims to trace the development of Putnam’s semantic externalism, situate his debate with Sellars in it, and reconstruct the two arguments he presented against Sellars. The second half of this paper aims to reconstruct how Sellars replied to Putnam. I argue that Sellars not only accepts the social character of language but also suggests how inferentialists can accommodate the contribution of the world. Sellars’ key idea is that substance terms have a ‘promissory note aspect’ which is to be cashed out in a successor conceptual framework. I reconstruct Sellars’ position as ideal successor externalism, and compare it with temporal externalism.

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推理主义和语义外在主义：塞拉斯和普特南之间被忽视的辩论

摘要 在他 1975 年发表的论文“'意义'的意义”中，希拉里·普特南 (Hilary Putnam) 著名地主张语义外在主义。然而，很少有人注意到这样一个事实，即早在 1973 年，Putnam 在一次会议上对 Wilfrid Sellars 的“意义作为功能分类”的评论中就提出了语言分工和双地球思想实验的想法，塞拉斯从广义的推论角度回答了普特南。本文的前半部分旨在追溯普特南语义外在主义的发展，将他与塞拉斯的辩论置于其中，并重构他针对塞拉斯提出的两个论点。本文的后半部分旨在重构 Sellars 如何回复 Putnam。我认为 Sellars 不仅接受语言的社会特征，而且还建议推理主义者如何适应世界的贡献。Sellars 的关键思想是，实质条款具有“本票方面”，将在后续概念框架中兑现。我重构了塞勒斯作为理想后继外在主义的立场，并将其与时间外在主义进行了比较。