Yes, it appears meaningless, I and others have tried hard to figure out a possible account of it.
I haven’t tried to get a fully general account of communication but I’m aware there’s been plenty of philosophical work, and I can see partial accounts that work well enough.
“The model is the territory” is a category error, but “the model accurately represents the territory” is not.
What does it mean for a model to “represent” a territory?
You’re assuming that the words you are using can represent ideas in your head.
Not at all, to the extent head is a territory.
Tell me what you are doing ,then.
I’m communicating, which I don’t have a fully general account of, but is something I can do and has relatively predictable effects on my experiences.
Your objection to representation was that there is no account if it.
Yes, it appears meaningless, I and others have tried hard to figure out a possible account of it.
I haven’t tried to get a fully general account of communication but I’m aware there’s been plenty of philosophical work, and I can see partial accounts that work well enough.
You’re implicitly assuming it works by using it. So why can’t I assume that representation works, somehow?
I know what successful communication looks like.
What does successful representation look like?
Communication uses symbols, which are representations.