(Zhang 1924: 64 65) The Taiwanese Modern Confucian philosopher Mou Zongsan tried to define the position of reason within traditional Chinese thought by comparing Western and Chinese culture, arguing that they were based on different representational forms of human reason.
If you take the immediacy thesis to imply the artistic irrelevance of all properties whose grasping requires the use of reason, and you include representational properties in that class, then you are apt to think that the immediacy thesis implies artistic formalism.
Like King, Soames grounds the representational capacities of propositions in the representational capacities of agents.
"Music provides a certain amount of abstraction, and the visual arts can easily end up being embarrassingly literal or representational, which may be one of the reasons for the lack of responses so far," she said.
If so, there is good reason to believe that the representational aspect of human thought can in some part be explained by evolution, if not just yet.
(Longchen, 1983: 206f) In contrast conventional truth is an objective domain of the cognitive processes with the representational images (dmigs bcas kyi blo'i spyod yul), for the reason that it may be known by means of the cognitive processes having the representational images (dmigs bcas kyi blo'i spyod ul).
If belief-expression is one of the criteria for truth-aptness, non-cognitivists will be in a position to use psychological non-cognitivism as a reason to deny that moral judgments are genuinely representational even when they meet minimalist requirements.
Theorists of nonconceptual content have canvassed several types of reasons for thinking that this propositional content does not exhaust the representational content of perception (see the entry on the contents of perception).[6] First, it has been argued that the contents of perception exhibit certain features that cannot be exhibited by the contents of the propositional attitudes.
The present book offers to explain the cultural reasons why.T.C.W. Blanning, a professor of history at Cambridge University, makes use of Juergen Habermas's terms "representational culture" and "the public sphere"—though this is certainly not a work of uncritical discipleship.
