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A theory of representation to complement TEC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2002

Ruth Garrett Millikan
Affiliation:
Philosophy Department U-54, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 ruth.millikan@uconn.edu http://vm.uconn.edu/~wwwphil/faclist2.html
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Abstract

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The target article can be strengthened by supplementing it with a better theory of mental representation. Given such a theory, there is reason to suppose that, first, even the most primitive representations are mostly of distal affairs; second, the most primitive representations also turn out to be directed two ways at once, both stating facts and directing action.

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press