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⁶ Peacocke, ‘The Perception of Music’, 266.

⁷ Ibid., 274.

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¹⁷ Peacocke, ‘What Is the Role of Authorial Intention in Determining the Correct Way to Hear a Piece of Music’, 305.

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²³ I am thinking particularly of the passage which reads, in part: ‘…I desire anyone to lay his hand upon his heart, and after a serious consideration, whether he thinks that the falsehood of such a book, supported by such a testimony, would be more extraordinary and miraculous than all the miracles it relates…’ See. Hume, David, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Steinberg, Eric (2^nd ed.; Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett, 1993), 90 (Section X)Google Scholar.

²⁴ I am leaving out of consideration here biological functions, such as the ‘function’ of the heart to pump blood, the ‘function’ of the kidneys to do whatever it is they do, and so on. The analysis of biological function is, of course, tied to the theory of evolution and natural selection, and is irrelevant to present concerns, which are, of course, about ‘crafted’, man-made objects, for which the generalization ‘no function without a giver of the function’ still holds, intentionless biological function notwithstanding.