Ruth Garrett Millikan
Pushmi-Pullyu Representations
Pushmi-pullyu representations (P-PRs) are in one breath both descriptf and directive, the simplest being animals signals to conspecifics, such danger signals and mating displays. P-PRs also appear in human languagej “No Johnny, we dont eat peas with our fingers”; “The meeting is (hereh; adjourned”. Human intentions are P-PRS in thought, as are percepti representations representing affordances. Inner representations of the sćj ciał roles that we play as we play them are P-PRS, as we fali into doL “what one does”. These primitive ways of thinking are an essentiał glui holding human societies together.