The Concept of Representation in Millikan's Biosemantics Theory
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In answer to the Putnam problem about extensional non-determination of language terms, Millikan asks if this problem exists by a new definition of representation according to biological evidences, especially the principle of natural selection. The Millikans answer to this question is negative and she believes that the question should be changed to what is that feature, which turns a relation to representation-represented among numerous possible relations between words and objects? Her answer to this question is accorded to a hypothesis that is also the place of disputations and arguments in biology and has its supporters and opponents. Millikan is in the group, which has a historical view to the function and believes that the function of each entity must be defined regarding to what it supposed to do in its appearance history and dedicates the proper adjective to such function. The alternative hypothesis believes that the function must be defined regarding to what an entity do at the moment in equivalence to the current status. The key point of presenting the concept of proper function by Millikan is a redefinition of representation. In this article, we want to show that the new definition of representation is accorded to the concept of Functure as something completely objective, in opposed to the common view of philosophy to the representation, which take it as mental.
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Persian
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Logical Studies, Volume:7 Issue: 2, 2017
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1 to 29
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