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    Challenges→Classical semantics and inferentialism differ in their explanatory direction: classical semantics explains inference from representation, while inferentialism explains representation from inference.

    If representational content is partly individuated by inferential relations even within classical frameworks, the explanatory directions are not mutually exclusive but interdependent.

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    Key Terms

    Classical frameworks(in philosophy of logic)
    Traditional, well-established systems of thinking about logic and meaning that have been used for centuries, like Aristotelian logic.
    Explanatory directions(in philosophy of science and metaphysics)
    Different ways of explaining something—like explaining A by pointing to B, versus explaining B by pointing to A; the causal or logical order in which you try to account for things.
    Inferential relations(as used in coherentism)
    Connections between beliefs where one belief supports or leads to another through logical reasoning.
    Interdependent(as used in systems thinking and philosophy)
    Mutually dependent on each other; when two things can't be fully separated because each one needs the other to exist or function properly.
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    (as what explains how our beliefs can mean something)
    The ability of thoughts, mental images, or beliefs to be 'about' something in the real world—like how the thought 'it's raining' represents an actual weather condition.
    individuated(Chodorow's account of boys' psychological development)
    Feeling oneself to be separate or distinct from others, as a result of identifying with an absent parent
    mutually exclusive(in logic)
    Two things are mutually exclusive when they cannot both be true or both happen at the same time.

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