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Eliminativism, meaning, and qualitative states

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I would like to thank Hartry Field and William Lycan for useful comments, and especially Stephen Stich and Tahashi Yagisawa for many helpful discussions. This work was supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Jacoby, H. Eliminativism, meaning, and qualitative states. Philosophical Studies 47, 257–270 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00354150

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