PHILOS 122 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fred Dretske
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Concepts provide us with a way of thinking about things. Need some thing to apply the predicate to. Objects must show up for us in our perceptual experience: dretske: to see an object is to single something out from its surroundings. We see objectgs and our conceptual resources go to work directly on the things we see. We have something there to attach our thinkings to. The kind of experience you can have depends on your conceptual resources. Sense-data -- cannot go beyond the character of experience. We have beliefs about the world we think are true. What does it take to have the conception of the world we have: have to understand the structure of thoughts to have predicational thought, x is brown" [brown] occupies a place in thought that other words could play. Can apply predicate [brown] to different subjects as well: knowledge is knowledge that such-and-such is so.
