On Distinguishing the Meaningless from the Meaningful: An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach to Ruth Millikan\'s Teleosemantics

What distinguishes a meaningless utterance from a meaningful term?  While one might say that, within the context of Ruth Millikan\'s teleosemantics, it is a term\'s having a proper function that distinguishes it from a meaningless utterance, I propose that the distinction can be made with...

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Main Author: Slipetz, Lindley
Other Authors: Philosophy
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/20377