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Representation, philosophy: representations are adopted internal conditions, such as visual imaginations or linguistic completions, which set in as associations or are possibly developed by reconstruction. In a wider sense, sentences, words, and symbols are representations within a character system. See also truth maker, idea, sentences, propositions, intensions, correspondence, speech act theory.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Michael Esfeld on Representation - Dictionary of Arguments

I 136 ~
Representation: harmless: beliefs represent things and facts of the world but they are not the original semantic property of beliefs. EsfeldVsDescartes: representation is intentional, not preconceptive.
>Intentionality
, >Representations/Descartes.
Representation/Descartes:
1st A belief represents things.
2nd Access is only guaranteed by representation. 3. The things of which we are conscious, are representations (strong representation, realism).
>Beliefs, >Realism.
Fodor: Fodor is pro Descartes, the content of belief states is derived from original representative content.
Problem: which causality is effective right now? Which characteristic is relevant? This does not allow conclusions.
>Jerry Fodor.
I 144ff
Representative semantics/Esfeld: Vs: similarity is not an explanation. But which one is the correct causal relation?
>Similarity, >Explanation, >Semantics.
VsRepresentation: a causal relation is not fixable. A representation cannot distinguish between reference (extension) and meaning (intension) - meaning is therefore not in the head.
>Reference, >Causal relation, >Meanings are not in the head.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Es I
M. Esfeld
Holismus Frankfurt/M 2002


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