Fodorian

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adjective

Of or relating to Jerry Fodor, American philosopher and cognitive scientist.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectiveFodorian (comparative more Fodorian, superlative most Fodorian)

comparative more Fodorian · superlative most Fodorian

  1. Of or relating to Jerry Fodor, American philosopher and cognitive scientist.

    We are now, I think, entering the third, or Fodorian phase in the vicissitudes of common sense.

    1988, Keith Campbell, “Philosophy and Common Sense”, in Philosophy, volume 63, number 244, →JSTOR, page 166
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    For, there is a considerably larger epistemic gap between ordinary attitude attributions and their Fodorian truth conditions than between those attributions and their Davidsonian truth conditions.

    1987, Terence Horgan, “Cognition Is Real”, in Behaviorism, volume 15, number 1, →JSTOR, page 19

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