Realism, instrumentalism, and the intentional stance
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Realism, Instrumentalism, and the Intentional Stance
One of Dennett’s principal arguments for on instrumentolistic construal of intentionol ottributions (e.g., ottributions of belief, etc.) is that such attributions ore environment relative. I argue that one can and should odopt a realist perspective toword such ottributions, but accommodate their environmental relativity by treoting intentional properties as relational properties. By doing so on...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Science
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0364-0213
DOI: 10.1016/s0364-0213(85)80022-7