PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Intentionality, Explanandum And Explanans
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The mind represents the world just like the way that a picture represents the world, namely by "similarity" The visual system is like a camera-we picture the world when we see the world. Aristotle claims that the eyeballs literally turn into red when. Picture of winston churchill we perceive red. According to putnam, the fact that the picture is visually similar to the person winston churchill is neither sufficient nor necessary for being a representation of winston churchill. What does it mean that bearing a visual similarity is not a sufficient condition for being a representation of churchill. What does it mean that bearing a visual similarity is not a necessary condition for being a representation of churchill. Similarity is not necessary to represent churchill. Has nothing to do with representative relationship. Ant happened to draw a face of winston churchill. Ant didn"t have the intention of winston churchill-we perceive it as that.
