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For the Quinean Realist, a language with\n\nsuch a semantics is fruitful for ontological investigation, insofar as analyzing the denotational meanings of (the constituents of) sentences in that language reveals which\n\nobjects populate the (external) worldly domain. However, consigning meaning over\n\nto truth in this manner comes at a cost. The externalist thesis is only had by sacrificing the explanatory adequacy of our theory of meaning. Three arguments suggest\n\nthis: first, facts about the rapid human acquisition of natural language suggests\n\nthat languages are internal to the human mind, as an innate module in cognitive\n\narchitecture; second, naturalist commitments suggest that there is no sui generis,\n\nmind-independent kind `word' to stand in the word-to-world relations posited by\n\nthe externalist; third, natural languages exhibit lexical flexibility, as manifest in the\n\ndistribution of natural language speaker judgments, and this property cannot be\n\neasily explained by an externalist semantics. The Realist might respond to these\n\narguments by appealing to the languages utilized to express our best scientific theories, using those invented languages as ontological guides. Since these scientific\n\nlanguages are constructed with the expressed purpose of perspicuously describing\n\nreality, the Realist could contend that expressions in those languages have an externalist semantics. I argue, using examples from evolutionary biology, that scientific\n\nlanguages exhibit lexical flexibility as well, casting doubt on the claim that these\n\nlanguages have meanings that admit to externalist treatment. The Realist then\n\nshould reject the metaphysical methodology which assumes the externalist thesis\n\nthat the meaning of a linguistic expression determines its 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