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    It is not the case that Internalism about meaning provides a better account of expressions like 'line' than the view that meanings determine extensions.

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    • 1.Putnam's Twin Earth argument shows that extension can diverge from internal mental states while meaning remains constant, undermining internalist sufficiency.
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    • 2.If 'water' means H2O even for speakers ignorant of chemistry, then meanings are partly constituted by external factors, not internal instructions alone.
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    • 3.An account that cannot explain why 'line' in geometry vs. queuing refers to different things without extension has explanatory gaps internalism cannot close.
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    • 1.Kripke's causal-historical theory grounds reference in chains of use tracing to initial baptisms, not internal conceptual instructions.
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    • 2.If the reference of 'line' is fixed by a causal chain to paradigm cases, the 'felt sameness of sense' reflects shared referential history, not shared internal meaning.
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    • 1.The internalist can say that the meaning of 'line' is an instruction to fetch one of a family of concepts.
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    • 2.This internalist account does not require treating 'line' as homophonous.
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    • 3.Treating 'line' as homophonous is implausible given the felt sameness of sense across uses.
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