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The Acquisition Problem and the Manifestation Problem of Thomistic Realism
Realists say the meaning of a proposition is given by truth conditions that we cannot know. But how can a person, a child for instance, ever learn the meaning of an expression that has recognition-transcendent truth conditions? So this is the problem of how language acquisition happens if realists miss true. And those arguments can be seen as challenges, also to Thomistic realism.