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Single Idea 3708
[filed under theme 18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content
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Full Idea
I assume that the contents of thought can be accounted for by appeal to just two general sorts of ingredient - properties (including relations) and indexicals.
Gist of Idea
All thought represents either properties or indexicals
Source
Laurence Bonjour (In Defence of Pure Reason [1998], §6.7)
Book Ref
Bonjour,Laurence: 'In Defense of Pure Reason' [CUP 1998], p.180
A Reaction
I don't accept that relations are a type of properties. Since he does not include objects or substances, I take it that he considers objects to be bundles of properties.
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26 ideas
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[how minds internally represent reality]:
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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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