Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 237
Artifact/interpretation/Game of Life/Conway/Dennett: Question: are the "Eater", "Glider", etc. designed objects or natural formations? The easiest Glider arises obviously from the rules, no one had to make it. ((s) >Game of Life/Conway; Cf. > Objet ambigu, Paul Valéry).
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Fodor IV 137
Interpretation theory/Dennett/Fodor/Lepore: (Brentano: Thesis: The intentional cannot be reduced to the physical).
Dennett: i.e. ontologically, there are no such things as belief, desires, intentional phenomena!
Interpretation: they are, however, indispensable as elements of interpretation (epistemic). ((s) That is, that intentionality (or its attribution) is accessible only by interpretation. ("Interpretivism", "interpretativism")).
IV 138
Intentional attribution/Dennett: intentional attribution is always wrong. Because there is no intentionality which is ontological (merely as epistemically useful concepts), Vs intentional realism.
>Attribution.

Principle of Charity/Fodor/Lepore: must be intrinsically holistic, which is also accepted by Dennett.
>Principle of Charity.
Interpretation theory:/Fodor/Lepore: according to Dennett, there are two schools:
1. Def Projectivism/Dennett: one ascribes to the other the internal states that one would have oneself in the appropriate circumstances.
2. Def Normativism/Dennett: one ascribes to the other internal states which he should have in the circumstances.
IV 139
There are, of course, close relations between normativism and holism.
>Holism.