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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism
Associations are held to connect Ideas together in the way the world is connected together [Fodor]
     Full Idea: The laws of associations were held to explicate the semantic coherence of intentional processes, which adjust the causal relations among Ideas to reflect corresponding relations among the things that they're ideas of.
     From: Jerry A. Fodor (Jerry A. Fodor on himself [1994], p.296)
     A reaction: With the support of evolution, and the backing of a correspondence theory of truth, plus more sophistication in the associations, this might work.