Category: Internalism-Externalism
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On Perceptual ‘Taking’
Ed writes, Something to think about. “I take an X to be a Y”. This can be true when there is no Y. For example, I take a tree root to be a snake. There is a tree root, but no snake. But what about the other way round? I take a mirror image to…
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Object-Directedness and Object-Dependence
Intentionality cannot be identified with object-dependence. Here is why. Suppose that I begin thinking about some faraway thing such as the Washington Monument (WM) and that I think of it without interruption through some short interval of time. Half-way through the interval, unbeknownst to me, the monument is destroyed and ceases to exist. Question: does…