Keith Lehrer has championed two types of reflexive phenomena that are sometimes thought to be problematic or impossible: exemplar representation (which seems to involve representations that represent themselves) and explanatory loops (which involve principles that explain themselves). My aim here is to distinguish several varieties of such phenomena, then determine which of them are present in Lehrer’s philosophy and whether they are possible or not.

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Exemplar Representation and Explanatory Loops

  • James Van Cleve

摘要

Keith Lehrer has championed two types of reflexive phenomena that are sometimes thought to be problematic or impossible: exemplar representation (which seems to involve representations that represent themselves) and explanatory loops (which involve principles that explain themselves). My aim here is to distinguish several varieties of such phenomena, then determine which of them are present in Lehrer’s philosophy and whether they are possible or not.