Indeed, the context of distributed and autonomous agents has always seemed a natural one within which to examine the problems of self modelling and reflection.
Inference rules are, like the declarative component, symbolic structures.
The inference engine. The model that I will outline, however, will be my own approach to these shared pragmatist insights. But even this move could at best pick out one among a host of alternative representational contents, one for each other end of the myriad of correspodences, and so it presupposes the existence of prior representations for the other end of the correspondences. This is circular. The Correspondence Continuum .