PHILOS 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intentionality
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Recap, putnam"s claim is that thought has to be made of" what it is of" by some contact between a relevant part of the world and the thinker a. i. Simplest case world is an object at the other end of a causal chain which produce thought a. i. 1. Other end of the chain" that produces that thought a. ii. What makes a thought of one thing rather than another a. ii. 1. Having a concept is having a collection of abilities a. ii. 1. a. i. e. , to use a word, or sort objects: putnam argues that nothing we could introspect could itself be a concept b. i. What follows is that no set of mental events constitutes understanding, and no set of mental events is necessary for understanding: putnam also argues that just because something resembles an object/person/thing, doesn"t mean it references it c. i. Words don"t resemble (and often drawings) what they"re about: distinguish two issues d. i.
