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| Lawlikeness: Here we are concerned with the status of statements which describe regularities but may not be laws of nature. See also Laws of nature, Regularities, Regularity theory, Laws._____________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 Lawlikeness - Dictionary of Arguments
I 315 Lawlikeness/identification/identifiability/individuation/laws//Millikan: Properties are identifiable only because they are involved in lawlike procedures. Substances: are only identifiable because they have properties. Concept/test/Millikan: is it necessary to make inferences of sentences in which tokens of concepts occur, in order to test the theory? Knowledge: we need knowledge about the use of concepts in actions, not in conclusions. And that would be impossible if the facts did not occur in laws. >Language behavior, >Communication. N.B.: But it does not follow that we need to know these laws at all. For example, to distinguish between red and green, we need to know no law of optics. I could do it anyway before I learned any law. >Knowledge, >Perception. I 316 Conviction/belief/Millikan: I can also develop beliefs about objects without having developed any theories about the entities of which the concepts are about in my beliefs. >Belief._____________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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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-16