Integrating surrogationalism

A review of The Semantics of Science by Roy Harris, with special attention to his discussion of Aristotle and science, chemical nomenclature, and Einstein’s twins.

► Integrationism does not preclude weak surrogationalism.
► Chemistry has perfected a successful surrogationalism.
► The distinction between real and nominal essences can be revised to provide a semantics for common substance words.
► ‘Scientist’ can be used retrospectively to integrate the methods of enquirers into nature ancient and modern.
► The semantics for the subanthropic world derives from models.