| ‘Meaning is relational,’ Christine Korsgaard writes. ‘To say that X means Y is to say that one ought to take X for Y; and this requires two, a legislator to lay it down that one must take X for Y, and a citizen to obey’ (The Sources of Normativity, ed. Onora O'Neill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 137). | | | | |
| ‘I think, therefore you are,’ might be Sophie's maxim, Charles Lowney suggests. | | | | |
| Various people think Wittgenstein has proven the communalist thesis. Donald Davidson offers his own support for the thesis (in ‘The Second Person’ and elsewhere). | | | | |
| Though a person cannot assume others exist in an anti-solipsist argument's premises, in this paperIcan assume others exist. I am not arguing against solipsism. I examine a purported refutation of solipsism. | | | | |
| Thanks to Charles Lowney, John Heil, and this journal's referees for their astute comments on drafts of this essay. | | | | |