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    It is not the case that A lone thinker cannot have thoughts with determinate content

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    • 1.Wittgenstein's private language argument targets rule-following, not the causal-historical grounding of perceptual content.
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    • 2.A solitary organism can develop reliable differential responses to environmental stimuli that constitute proto-semantic content.
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    • 3.Triangulation adds precision to content but is not the necessary condition for content determinacy itself.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Fodor's informational semantics grounds content determinacy in asymmetric causal dependence relations between world-states and mental representations.
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    • 2.Such causal-informational relations hold between a lone thinker and their environment without requiring a third interlocutor.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.For a thought to have determinate content, a process of triangulation must occur
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    • 2.Triangulation requires another person to correlate the thinker's responses to something in the world
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    • 3.If there were no other people, no such triangulation could occur
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