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50 Beth Preston References Aristotle (Physics; Metaphysics) The Basic Works of Aristotle (McKeon, R., ed.). New York: Random Hou ...
4 How Biological, Cultural, and Intended Functions Combine 4.1 An Attractive Classifi cation of Functions What is the function o ...
52 Françoise Longy or the effect that, pushed by natural selection, explains the diffusion or the conservation of the trait in t ...
How Biological, Cultural, and Intended Functions Combine 53 attractive classifi cation of functions into artifact functions and ...
54 Françoise Longy A selected effect is something real and objectively ascertainable if the mechanism of selection is itself obj ...
How Biological, Cultural, and Intended Functions Combine 55 In what follows, I try to show that the customary ways of distinguis ...
56 Françoise Longy However, such traits also deserve, it seems, to be called “artifactual” because without voluntary human inter ...
How Biological, Cultural, and Intended Functions Combine 57 necessarily suppose something similar to natural selection, and I ag ...
58 Françoise Longy has been a co-evolution of the plants and of their cultural role. Human culture has adapted to cereal biology ...
How Biological, Cultural, and Intended Functions Combine 59 A functional assertion, however, indicates more than just the existe ...
60 Françoise Longy scientifi c background is needed to come up with a plausible mechanism. Often a layman’s theoretical backgrou ...
How Biological, Cultural, and Intended Functions Combine 61 such function disappear. Mixed functions cannot divide into two or t ...
62 Françoise Longy different from the peelers she knows, will probably change her thought from “John is using a new sort of peel ...
How Biological, Cultural, and Intended Functions Combine 63 ined effect the planned object should have in the foreseen condition ...
64 Françoise Longy amateur tests arrive at the conclusion that these are indeed so badly conceived that they cannot provide any ...
How Biological, Cultural, and Intended Functions Combine 65 we envisage the new device? As a new car device? Or as a long-existe ...
66 Françoise Longy Notes This idea lies at the core of the traditional intentionalist theory of artifacts. For a quick historic ...
How Biological, Cultural, and Intended Functions Combine 67 housewives, its selection will not, according to a strict version of ...
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5 On Unifi cation: Taking Technical Functions as Objective (and Biological Functions as Subjective) 5.1 Introduction Biological ...
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