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Picture, mapping: what conditions must meet a picture? In how it relates to the depicted object? Is there a copy ratio in nature? See also similarity, causation, representation, causality._____________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 Picture (Mapping) - Dictionary of Arguments
I 158 Picture/Meaning/Millikan: Expressions of the public language are often handed down for reasons that have nothing to do with their mapping function. E.g. "bewitched": such a term has no meaning, its only meaning is its intension. ((s) Intension here: personal reasons for use). N.B.: that an expression has no meaning must be discovered empirically. It cannot be known a priori. >Picture theory, >Language, >Presentation. I 198 Identity/Meaning/Picture/Millikan: The meaning of "A is B" requires that "A" and "B" map to the lowest word types that have a special relation to each other, namely that they have the same referent. Problem: the focused stabilizing function of "A is B" is not to produce inner terms in the listener that map words! Representation: this is the reason why "A is B" is an intentional icon, it is not a representation. Referent: do "A" and "B" have referents? So far we've talked about something that needs to be here, and that is the real value so that it works normally. >Terminology/Millikan. I 199 Real value: must be defined beforehand by the content of the rest of the icon or sentence. Real value: from "A": is the word type "A". And this is not determined by the content, but only by the form of the rest of the sentence. Picture/Identity/Reference/Millikan: no one who passed through Carnap's school would assume that "A" refers to the word "A". Reference/Millikan: here we have to distinguish two types of reference. >Reference/Millikan._____________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 |