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teleosemantics

noun

Etymology

From teleo- + semantics, introduced by Ruth Millikan who attributes it to Steven Wagner.

  1. derived from σημαντικός
  2. derived from sémantique
  3. prefixed as teleosemantics — “teleo + semantics”

Definitions

  1. The view that the notion of representation should be defined with respect to biological…

    The view that the notion of representation should be defined with respect to biological function.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for teleosemantics. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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