
David Papineau: How Does Consciousness Connect Us To Reality?
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Representation and Slotof Perception
In the book, i use then analogy of words, which is just like meann. I say, look, take the words of english. The h example i used, elvis was once in paris. And it's a familiar thought that the state that represents yellow in me on couldn't equally represent a blueness and so on. But at the same time, the naturalist theory of representation that i described surely argues that it's contingent that conscious sensory states represent what they do. So everyday intuition supports thissensualist representationalism, as opposed to my contingent representationalism.
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