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The map, the territory, and the cartographer: Linking the “pure” formal models to the “murky” material world

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Abstract Assigning to Pearl blankets an instrumental, a “pure” formal role, tacitly delegates the thorny question of mapping the “murky” territory to empirical sciences. But this move side-lines the problem,… Click to show full abstract

Abstract Assigning to Pearl blankets an instrumental, a “pure” formal role, tacitly delegates the thorny question of mapping the “murky” territory to empirical sciences. But this move side-lines the problem, and does not offer a solution to the question: How do we relate the formal properties of an agent's model of the world to the real properties of the world itself?

Keywords: world; pure formal; territory cartographer; map territory; cartographer linking

Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2022

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