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Single Idea 3492
[filed under theme 18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content
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Full Idea
Sentence meaning radically underdetermines the content of what is said.
Gist of Idea
Content is much more than just sentence meaning
Source
John Searle (The Rediscovery of the Mind [1992], Ch. 8.II)
Book Ref
Searle,John R.: 'The Rediscovery of the Mind' [MIT 1999], p.181
A Reaction
We have body language, and we have tone, and we have context, and we have speaker's and listener's meanings. I take sentence meaning to be the basis which makes the rest possible.
Related Idea
Idea 6168
The content of a thought is just the meaning of a sentence [Rowlands]
The
26 ideas
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[how minds internally represent reality]:
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21541
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The complexity of the content correlates with the complexity of the object
[Russell]
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6164
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Sartre rejects mental content, and the idea that the mind has hidden inner features
[Sartre, by Rowlands]
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3492
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Content is much more than just sentence meaning
[Searle]
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6977
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Egocentric or de se content seems to be irreducibly so
[Jackson]
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4889
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Although we may classify ideas by content, we individuate them differently, as their content can change
[Perry]
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23794
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Some representational states, like perception, may be nonconceptual
[Evans, by Schulte]
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23803
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States have content if we can predict them well by assuming intentionality
[Dennett, by Schulte]
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3708
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All thought represents either properties or indexicals
[Bonjour]
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2983
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Maybe narrow content is physical, broad content less so
[Lyons on Fodor]
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3115
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Are meaning and expressed concept the same thing?
[Burge, by Segal]
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3147
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Problem-solving clearly involves manipulating images
[Rey]
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3175
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Animals map things over time as well as over space
[Rey]
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2977
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All thinking has content
[Lyons]
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15588
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You cannot determine the full content from a thought's intrinsic character, as relations are involved
[Fine,K]
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6636
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The naturalistic views of how content is created are the causal theory and the teleological theory
[Lowe]
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6168
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The content of a thought is just the meaning of a sentence
[Rowlands]
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7637
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Thought content is either satisfaction conditions, or exercise of concepts
[Maund, by PG]
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16381
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The content of thought is what is required to understand it (which involves hearers)
[Recanati]
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18035
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Two sentences with different meanings can, on occasion, have the same content
[Magidor]
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19264
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Aboutness is always intended, and cannot be accidental
[Vaidya]
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23806
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Naturalist accounts of representation must match the views of cognitive science
[Schulte]
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23792
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Phenomenal and representational character may have links, or even be united
[Schulte]
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23793
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On the whole, referential content is seen as broad, and sense content as narrow
[Schulte]
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23796
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Naturalists must explain both representation, and what is represented
[Schulte]
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23795
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Naturalistic accounts of content cannot rely on primitive mental or normative notions
[Schulte]
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23804
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Maybe we can explain mental content in terms of phenomenal properties
[Schulte]
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