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I forgot to say that the suggestion that we replace 'reflection' with 'representation' was just what I was afraid to hear. This would bring us right back to Kant and cognitivism. As Derek well knows, right? Martin On 1/7/09 4:18 PM, "Derek Melser" <derek.melser@gmail.com> wrote: > Martin, you ask whether there is a more active-connoting synonym of > 'reflect'. What about 'represent'? Rorty's book, Philosophy and the Mirror of > Nature, was about the representational theory of mind. The metaphor of > innerness, of people doing things inside their own heads, and the metaphor of > thoughts representing reality, are two different metaphors. But they go > together very well, as the longevity of traditional Western epistemology and > the funds-attracting power of modern cognitive science show. _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca