 In order to counter these objections one would have to show how semantics (i.e., Feigl’s theory of reference and truth) and epistemology (i.e., Feigl’s insistence on confirmability) are related to each other. There is some evidence that Feigl’s adoption of Wilfrid Sellars’s idea of a ‘pure pragmatics’ (see Feigl 1950a, pp. 49–50; 1981, pp. 254–255) could play the essential role in this connection. However, Sellars’s conception of a ‘pure pragmatics’ is itself rather “eccentric” (Carus 2004, p. 320) and it is fairly hard to see how, according to Feigl, a realist approach to science could be defended on the basis of an essentially pragmatic justification (for further details, see Neuber 2011, pp. 175–176, and especially Neuber 2017)