普特南在他对W.塞拉斯的论文所作的评论中,阐明了这样两种在他看来被普遍接受但彼此不相容的相关意义:(1)意义与知识有关;(2)意义确定外延。根据普特南的看法,必须抛弃其中之一。他建议抛弃(1),因为,尽管他不想排除抛弃(2)而保留(1)这种作法的可行性,但他不知道如何做到这一点。 Putnam showed in his comments on W. Silas’s essay two relevant and commonly accepted but incompatible versions of what he sees as the following: (1) meaning is related to knowledge; (2) Significance to determine the extension. According to Putnam, one of them must be abandoned. He suggested abandoning (1) because, although he did not want to rule out the possibility of abandoning (2) and keeping (1) this practice, he did not know how to do that.