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Thomas Young, Natural Philosopher
Dr. Willmer's second edition of this little book fulfills his stated purpose ... to correlate some of the numerous fragments of scattered data which have so far been obtained and to orientate them in such a way as to illustrate the more fundamental contributions which the method has made to physiological knowledge, and to show the manner in which a change of outlook has already been brought abo...
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Why Is a Representationalist Analysis Useful? In this chapter I will briefly sketch the outline of a representationalist theory of subjective experience. (See also Metzinger 1993, forthcoming). A representationalist theory is one that chooses to analyze its target properties – those aspects of the domain which eventually are to be explained – on a certain level of description: by describing con...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1934
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/133276a0