Dickie's Governance View [Drew Owens]

In Dickies's Governance View, I appreciated her consideration of narratives as models we build.

"The task of constructing a mundane narrative determines a range of permissible uses for representations deployed in attempting it... You count as using X to represent Y only if the ways you deploy X match what I shall call Y's 'mundane behavioral possibilities': observable behaviors possible for Y across the situations you are trying to model (Dickie, p.63)..."

While this quote is explicating only normal behaviors (i.e. mundane), I agree with Dickie that the range of behaviors specific to a scenario or context has a great deal to do with how we successfully refer. The introduction of a variable range, sensitive to context, of qualities or attributes of any given object seems to agree with intuitive expectations. Dickie's view also provides a great account for the transfer of referring capabilities.

I have trouble with what constitutes the "developmental core (p.68)." It seems that this is another incarnation of the cluster theory, but now presented to satisfy a more 'Kripkean' necessity for reference. At what point does the parasitic consumer develop a complete enough "core" to refer with confidence?

Dickie states that "producers' rapport with an object does establish governance (p. 72). There is a further harder question about exactly how it does." Does her entire argument hinge on this being the case? How complete does this governance need to be?