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Schwarz I 171
"Naturalization of content"/representation/Schwarz: the naturalization of content is, thesis: that mental representations are so far as to be clause-like, so that one can explain their content compositionally. (See Fodor 1990)(1).
Cf. >Compositionality.
LewisVsFodor: fundamentally missed: only the causal role in everyday life (behavior) is relevant. Even if the desire for e.g. mushroom soup is beautifully composed of desire for soup and desire for mushroom. Because on the opposite it is a mushroom soup desire, if it plays exactly this causal role, no matter what it is composed of. (1994b(2), 320f).
>Causal roles.
One can equally well imagine beings who do not represent clause-like (see Armstrong 1973(3), Chap. 1, Braddon-Mitchell/Jackson 1996(4), chapter 10f).
Lewis's theory is also intended to be valid for these worlds, as well as to explain what determines the content.
>Possible worlds, >Representation.


1. Jerry A.Fodor [1990]: “A Theory of Content I & II”. In A Theory of Content and Other Essays,
Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press, 51–136
2. D. Lewis [1994b]: “Reduction of Mind”. In Samuel Guttenplan (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy
of Mind, Oxford: Blackwell, 412–431
3. D. M. Armstrong [1973]: Belief, Truth, and Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
4. David Braddon-Mitchell und Frank Jackson [1996]: Philosophy of Mind and Cognition.
Oxford: Blackwell

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