Lexicon of Arguments

 

IV 41/42
Holism/science/Quine/Fodor/Lepore: if the network metaphor is correct, then there is nothing transtheoretical.
Vs: but this is needed for the public nature of the observation.
IV 49
Conceptual holism/Fodor/Lepore: assumptions about the necessary relationships between concepts have no psychological consequences, e.g. cat/animal requires nothing for the actual use or for learning (VsConceptual Holism). >Semantic holism.
IV 127f
Holism/Fodor/Lepore: a functional analysis of the belief can make it holistic but that does not imply conceptual holism, because belief is not a basic concept, but a representation. Thesis: belief holism is secured, conceptual holism is not!
IV 129/130
Holism/Fodor/Lepore: intentionality: does not lead to holism (propositional attitudes are not holistic qua intentionality, their semantic properties depend on things which only God knows). Functionalism: leads to holism. >Intentionality.
Fodor/LeporeVs: no, because there is no analytic-synthetic distinction. >Analyticity/syntheticity.
IV 179
Inferential role/Fodor/Lepore: originally, the attractiveness of the inferenctial role as a causal role consisted in providing a basis for the solution of Brentano's problem of irreducibility to neurophysiology. (>Computation).
IV 180
Fodor/Lepore: either one represents the semantics of the conceptual role or one is a holist. >Conceptual role semantics.