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#36 - [The Chapman Series, Pt. 1] Cognitivism, Representationalism, and Rationalism

Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren

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The Idea of Indexical Representation

An indexical representation is a referring to a local circumstance such that its intelligibility to another person depends on them sharing that that tha context. So it's like, the example that chapman uses is a, you know, your if if i say, the egg plant is a straw hat and the ar the spinach is a is arguing politics, ok? That sentence does not make any sense in the context that you enirein. The meaning was totally unintelligible in one case and perfectly intelligible in the other.

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