In Defense of Proper Functions
- 1 June 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 56 (2) , 288-302
- https://doi.org/10.1086/289488
Abstract
I defend the historical definition of "function" originally given in my Language, Thought and Other Biological Categories (1984a). The definition was not offered in the spirit of conceptual analysi...Keywords
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