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(1999) Consciousness and intentionality, Dordrecht, Springer.

Pragmatic aspects of content determination

Frances Egan

pp. 217-228

"Naturalistic" semantic theories attempt to specify sufficient conditions, in a non-intentional and non-semantic vocabulary, for a mental representation's having a particular meaning. Information-basedtheories, for example, identify the meaning of a mental representation with the cause of its tokening in certain specifiable circumstances.1Teleological theories hold that the meaning of a mental representation is determined by its biological function, what it was selected for.2

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9193-5_10

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Egan, F. (1999)., Pragmatic aspects of content determination, in D. Fisette (ed.), Consciousness and intentionality, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 217-228.

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