The government's solution is to require 30% of board seats to be held by women in all listed companies that are subject to "co-determination"—meaning that they are required by law to have representatives of their workers on their supervisory boards.
Since mentalists aim to explain the nature of meaning in terms of the mental states of language users, mentalist theories may be divided according to which mental states they take to be relevant to the determination of meaning.
This is obviously a big deal for its citizens and for those who sympathized with its struggle for self-determination, but meaning no disrespect, it seems like a good time to ask: what does it mean to become a country?
This hollow-expanse is, to be sure, beyond conceptual understanding, insofar as concepts have as their medium the world of language and its determinations of meaning.
It is possible that our study suffered from a similar bias, overestimating the true β-hCG clearance time as once a declining β-hCG is established, the frequency of determinations decreased meaning that the true time of clearance is missed.
He argues that the argument Kripke's skeptic provides against determinate meaning facts suffers from equivocation between these two readings of determination (Soames 1997, 222ff, esp. 232). 5.
As we noted above (section 2.1.1), the problem of error, by itself, would seem to be a problem for naturalistic accounts of meaning determination quite independently of normativity.
Alternatively, the MD normativist might adopt an account according to which meaning determination has two components, a dispositionalist and a normativist component.
MD normativism is often taken to provide solutions to certain classical problems of meaning determination, most prominently the "problem of error".
Primitive normativity thus is a notion not only needed in an account of meaning determination, but in any account of rule-following in general.
Beyond that, it is not easy for externalists to provide a satisfactory account of lexical semantic competence, as they are committed to regarding speakers' beliefs and abilities (e.g., recognitional abilities) as essentially irrelevant to reference determination, hence to meaning.
