On Several Misuses of Sober's Selection for/Selection of Distinction

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Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 181-193

  Artiga, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Indeterminacy problem; Selection for; Sober; Target of selection argument; Teleological theories of mental content; Teleosemantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155142388     PISSN: 01677411     EISSN: 15728749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11245-011-9113-8     Document Type: Article

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