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Full Idea
Pure referentialism is the kind of semantics RTM requires (reference is the only primitive mind-world semantic property). ...So the content of a concept is its reference.
Clarification
RTM: Representational Theory of Mind
Gist of Idea
For the referential view of thought, the content of a concept is just its reference
Source
Jerry A. Fodor (LOT 2 [2008], Ch.1)
Book Ref
Fodor,Jerry A.: 'LOT 2: the Language of Thought Revisited' [OUP 2008], p.16
A Reaction
This seems to say that the meaning of a concept is (typically) a physical object, which seems to be the 'Fido'-Fido view of meaning. It seems to me to be a category mistake to say that a meaning can be a cat.
12131 | All concepts can be derived from a few basics, making possible one science of everything [Carnap, by Brody] |
12629 | For the referential view of thought, the content of a concept is just its reference [Fodor] |
12631 | Compositionality requires that concepts be atomic [Fodor] |
11139 | Maybe concepts have no structure, and determined by relations to the world, not to other concepts [Margolis/Laurence] |