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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.
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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.

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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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