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From: Marko Amnell
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 09:29

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Hilary Putnam "attacks functionalism" in his book _Representation and
Reality_ (MIT, 1988).  I think he makes some good points about 
intentionality (eg. about the social division of labour in giving words
meanings) but it's been a while since I read it and I can't recall what
the attack of functionalism really was.  I remembered the title, so
this is not a total waste of bandwidth.


-- 
Marko Amnell
amnell@klaava.helsinki.fi
Graduate Student in Philosophy

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Subject: Putnam's book
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