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The Metaphysics of Representation (Paperback)
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The Metaphysics of Representation (Paperback)
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Representing the world is a puzzling thing. How can it be that
mundane events such as processing a thought-and from there putting
those thoughts into words-acquire this property of 'aboutness'? How
can expressions, which depend on anything from the most fundamental
regularities in the universe to trivial matters of gossip, be
either true or false? In The Metaphysics of Representation, J.
Robert G. Williams tells a story about how representational
properties arise out of a fundamentally non-representational world.
The representational properties of language are reduced, via
convention, to the representational properties of thoughts. The
representational properties of thoughts are reduced, via principles
of rationalization, to the representational properties of
perception and intention. And this most fundamental layer of
representation is explained in terms of the functions they have to
communicate. Williams integrates work from rival traditions to
present a combined perspective in the metaphysics of
representation, give new predictions and explanations of
representational phenomena, and offer new solutions to
long-standing problems.
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