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    Hilary Putnam's semantic externalism entails that the content of color terms is fixed by the actual environmental samples in the subject's world, not by internal phenomenal states.

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    Color terms(as examples of the types of words being discussed)
    Words we use to describe colors, like 'red,' 'blue,' or 'green'.
    Environmental samples(as what determines color word meanings, according to Putnam)
    Actual examples of things in the real world around you, like real-world instances of colors you've seen.
    Fixed by(as how extensions are determined)
    Determined or decided by; in this context, it means that something decides what a word's meaning is.
    Hilary Putnam(as a reference to a specific philosopher's arguments)
    An influential American philosopher (1926-2016) who made major contributions to philosophy of mind and language; he's famous for arguing that the same mental state could be realized in different physical ways.
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    (Possible worlds semantics)
    The proposition expressed by a sentence; in possible worlds semantics, content is identified with an intension.
    phenomenal states(authors' interpretation of Siewert's identification of phenomenal character)
    states of things seeming a certain way, where the relevant kind of seeming is the kind familiar from perceptual cases where things look a certain way
    semantic externalism(Referenced as a position supported by the water-is-H2O thesis; general treatment considered out of scope)
    The thesis that the meaning or reference of terms is determined at least in part by factors external to the speaker's mind

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