He ended by noting that "before he was 25," Ives "had begun those audacious experiments in the organization of sound" that in the critic's considered opinion made "the typical utterances of Schoenberg sound like Haydn sonatas".
There is no need for a fictionalist proposal to explain why in typical utterances of them we express something true.
Rather, the real content of (M i.e., what typical utterances of this sentence really say is that there are two Martian moons.
They think that typical utterances of indicative sentences containing moral predicates express beliefs in the same way that other sentences with ordinary descriptive predicates typically do.
There is no need, he argues, to go on and insist that typical utterances of (1) and (4) convey in any way information about how Lois believes what she believes.
But his version of the view is a bit different, because he thinks that the sentences of our platonistically formulated empirical theories or at least typical utterances of these sentences are actually true, because their real contents are nominalistic.
