ABSTRACT
I now turn to a permutation argument in Field (1975). Field wants to establish the truth and triviality of a certain conventionalist thesis about reference. To make this thesis clear, I need a couple of his definitions. First (1975:375), a scheme of reference for a language ℒ is an account that specifies which words of ℒ are names and what these names denote, which words of ℒ are predicates and what these predicates are true of, and so on.
