Lexicon of Arguments

 

Rorty VI 217
Brandom/Davidson/SellarsVs"Content"/Rorty: content is an incomprehensible concept. You need nothing more than a concept that acts as a node of an inference pattern. Thus all words systematically put into circulation are on the same level, regardless of whether they come from superstitious people or cavemen. (VsMcDowell).
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Davidson I (b) 19
Pone Example: Thought content must be known - to find it simple or difficult.
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Davidson I (e) 96/7
Content/Belief/Davidson: the sensory experience does play a major role in the causal process through which beliefs are connected to the world, but it is a mistake to believe that it plays an epistemological role in determining the content of these beliefs! - ((s) beforehand, the content is already defined during learning, otherwise no comparison of beliefs and world is possible, because they would always behave in parallel.)

>Sensory impressions, >Perception, >Causal theory of knowledge, >Conceptual content, >Propositional content.