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Philosophy of mind

the problem for causal theories of content that if everything that reliably causes a symbol fixes its meaning, misrepresentation becomes impossible.

In philosophy of mind, disjunction problem refers to the problem for causal theories of content that if everything that reliably causes a symbol fixes its meaning, misrepresentation becomes impossible. This meaning comes from Fodor (1984) in Synthese.[1]

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disjunction2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs symbol3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Fodor, J. A. (1984). Semantics, Wisconsin style. Synthese, 59(3), 231-250. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00869335

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