Theories as a Form of Mental Representation and Their Role in the

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in the last lecture module we focus primarily on background assumptions that serve to frame the formulation of theories of mental representation and or the evaluation of those theories in the literature in this module we want to shift our attention over to the second half of the material for this week looking at three different prominent theories of mental representation the first theory that we're going to start with is a theory that isn't covered in much detail in the reading that's the intrinsic property theory the similarity theory we'll talk about what the similarity theory asserts then i'll try to motivate it by pointing out that it's possible to suppose that the similarity theory in fact is a good theory for certain representational structures inside the human brain then we'll point to some general problems with similarity as a means for representing all sorts of different features of the world in the brain and we'll finish by looking at the second category of theories the theor