Meaning: what’s the matter?
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https://doi.org/10.12775/ths.2003.011Keywords
Merleau-Ponty, behaviour, biological meaning, structure, meaning, sense, intrinsic normsAbstract
Merleau-Ponty states that the aim of The Structure of Behaviour (1942) is to understand the relation between consciousness and nature. “Nature” is defined as a multiplicity of events bound together by relations of causality and external to each other. Although Merleau-Ponty stresses the causal relation of events in nature - ’thus giving a classic definition - he also points out that the causal relation is external or extrinsic.aReferences
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