ABSTRACT

Author describes the programme which it have called 'quasi-realism', which shows how far a projectivist may adopt the intellectual practices supposedly definitive of realism. In the next section he turn to McDowell's specific argument against a projective theory, The outsider is someone who has no tendency to share the community's reaction, nor has he even embarked on an attempt to make sense of it. It is no harder for the projectivist, seeking to detect what shape he can in the reactions than it is for the realist, seeking what shape he can in the world we describe as funny and good. So author conclude that the belief that we had here an especial difficulty for the projective theory was erroneous. The important task for the projectivist is to license the operations with the concept of truth which we go in for, and this I have tried to show him doing.