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題 名 | Disjunction, Ambiguity, and the Problem of Content-Fixation |
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作 者 | Peng,Eric M.; | 書刊名 | Taiwanese Journal for Philosophy & History of Science |
卷 期 | 5:2=9 1996.10[民85.10] |
頁 次 | 頁25-50 |
分類號 | 100 |
關鍵詞 | Disjunction; Ambiguity; Content-fixation; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | In this Essay I argued that Fodor's Disjunction Problem for causation-based theories of mental representation is an ill-formed pseudo problem. It is ill-formed not only because the formal derivation of the problem fails, but also because of the conflation between the problem of content-fixation and the problem of misrepresentation. Related to the former problem there is another conflation between talking about mental representations and talking about linguistic items in general and their natural-language labels in particular. After pointing out the two embedded conflations I drew two further implications: that there can be genuine cases of disjunctive representation but that no mental representation can be ambiguous. |
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