An answer to Soames’ critique about weak two-dimensionalism based on the concept of intuition in Millikan’s Biosemantics theory

By presenting an interpretation of two-dimensionalism and dividing it to weak and strong versions, Scott Soames has criticized the totality of two-dimensionalists effort on rebirthing the descriptive theory of meaning and rejected it. On this special issue, Millikan’s biosemantic theory can act to promote the two-dimensionalists position. Based on this, what soames attributed to two-dimensionalists as the need of rigidification of the reference-fixing descriptions is not acceptable and according to two-dimensionalism it seems that these descriptions have been rigidified in some other ways. Our goal in this article is to demonstrate, based on a three-dimensional model of biosemantic theory, that the interpretation of Soames about twodimensionalism is strongly depended on the principles of direct reference theory and alsosemantic of two-dimensionalism needs not to rigidify the reference-fixing descriptions in the way that Soames has claimed.