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According to an externalist position, one can claim without contradiction that two speakers could be in exactly the same brain state at the time of an utterance, and yet mean different things by that utterance, that is, the term picks out a different extension.

Externalism is generally thought to be a necessary consequence of any causal theory of reference; since the causal history of a term is not internal, the involvement of that history in determining the term's referent is enough to satisfy the externalist thesis.

However, Putnam and many subsequent externalists have maintained that not only reference, but sense as well is determined, at least in part, by external factors (see sense and reference).

Putnam presented a variety of arguments for the externalist position, the most famous being those that concerned Twin Earth.

The first would be determined in a holistic manner and the second non-holistically and externalistically.

These are some of the problems and questions that have still to be resolved by those who would adopt a position of "holistic externalism" or "externalist holism".

That the self-defeat argument cannot establish that externalist alternatives to PC are self-defeating without appeal to internalist assumptions.