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teleosemantics  

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  • This entry offers an overview of a relatively recent approach, called teleosemantics, that has become prominent in philosophical accounts of mental representation. The entry first explains what teleosemantic theories aim at and proceeds to present varieties of such theories. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Teleosemantics]

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