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#36 - [The Chapman Series, Pt. 1] Cognitivism, Representationalism, and Rationalism
Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren
What Is the Inherent Meaning of Words?
Theory of representationalism doesn't answer the question how our representations get their meanings. Nincinian aphorism is this idea that meaning is not intrinsic to a thing, but an ongoing dynamic interaction. Words can mean anything indifferent contexts, right? Ah, you know, g plant is a straw hat. Finish is arguing politics. Those words mean something totally different in that context, and they would another context,. And we've seen how it's true of things that are a sort of a certain shape, like the cloud in the sky. That' shape, like an elephant. It's only a representation of an elephant in some sense, when taken to be such. Thesame thing
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