
Scott Soames, “Appreciating Analytic Philosophy” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Ideas Roadshow Podcast
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Is It More Than You Can Do It?
We start from the idea that there are two sides. There is this mental operation that i can perform, that any animal with a visual system and ithit can represent colors can perform. So let's take a piece of information to be one of these acts, predicating brownness of this thing,. And then let's take different forms that that act can take, using language to do so, using percept, in one's perception, to do so in one's imagination. Though s are all propositions as witl their different, slightly different cognitive acts, but they have the same representational content because they are all predications of brownness of that object. They have identical truth conditions they impose
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