Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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III 34
Evolution/Putnam: evolution does not require that each ability is the result of selection.
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V 61
Evolution/language: today, a theory is modern according to which evolution itself has produced a correspondence between our words and spiritual representation and the external things. It is said that we would not have survived without such correspondence.
>Language evolution, >Word meaning/Deacon
V 62
Putnam: but we must ask what do "correspondence" and "reference" have to do with survival? What has truth anything to do with survival?
>Correspondence.
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III 42
Teleology/evolution/Ernst Mayr: Ernst Mayer suggests to speak in evolution theory not of teleology, but of teleology simulation, or "teleonomy". To escape the lion is only the function of the genetic trait in question, as this trait would not have been selected if the high speed had not given the gazelles the opportunity to escape the lion.
>Teleology.
III 49
Intentionality/evolution/Putnam: evolution will not give us more intentionality than we put into it. >Intentionality.

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