PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Intentionality
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Something that represents something (either itself or something else) It goes proxy, stands for; symbolizes something: refers to something, it is accurate/inaccurate. Examples of representational kinds: pictorial representation, linguistic representation, mental representation. Are some kind of representation more fundamental than others: pictorial representation. How does van gogh"s portrait represent him: represents him in virtue of resembling him. If then a: and , either or , not i. Cannot get these from pictures: pictorial representations, require interpretation, cannot represent logical relations. The cat is on the mat: how does the string of symbols "the cat is on the mat" come to represent a particular situation- viz. the cat being on the mat. Convention: cannot explain the representation relation, only why some things represent other things, dog represents dogs by convention. Convention cannot explain how "dog" represents without appealing to the mental states of subjects doing the representing.
