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Sentences: sentences are linguistic forms for expressing existent or non-existent issues of conditions, wishes, questions or commands. Statements can be true or false, unlike other forms of sentences like questions or single words. See also subsentential, truth, statements.
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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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Ruth Millikan on Sentences - Dictionary of Arguments

I 22
Sentence/Millikan: Sentences are reproduced units. A sentence usually has several role models.
Syntactic rules: are the reproductively determined character of the sentence. They copy the grammar.
>Syntax
, >Proposition, >Meaning, >Picture theory.
I 53
Sentence/Millikan: a sentence is never a simple element of a reproductively determined family, at least the syntactic form of words belongs to different families.
Syntax: can be assumed as a large superordinate family, the individual forms belong to different families.
Direct eigenfunction/sentence/Millikan: the direct eigenfunction of a sentence is derived from the stabilization functions of the elements.
>Terminology/Millikan.
I 90
Sentence/belief/language/thinking/Millikan: it seems clear that if we had no beliefs, we would stop talking or expressing sentences with meaning. But why is it clear? We need a different explanation.
Sentence/Intentionality/Millikan: Thesis: a sentence (and any other typically intentional pattern) is intentional because of the eigenfunctions and normal relations that this pattern has for a producer and an interpreter. These two are cooperating units in this process.
N.B.: then sentences are fundamentally intentional and have no derived intentionality. (MillikanVsTradition, MillikanVsSearle).

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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.

Millikan I
R. G. Millikan
Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism Cambridge 1987

Millikan II
Ruth Millikan
"Varieties of Purposive Behavior", in: Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Animals, R. W. Mitchell, N. S. Thomspon and H. L. Miles (Eds.) Albany 1997, pp. 189-1967
In
Der Geist der Tiere, D Perler/M. Wild, Frankfurt/M. 2005


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