Single Idea 3387

[catalogued under 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology]

Full Idea

A culture that lacked our folk psychology would be unintelligible to us, and its language untranslatable into our own.

Gist of Idea

A culture without our folk psychology would be quite baffling

Source

Jaegwon Kim (Philosophy of Mind [1996], p.110)

Book Reference

Kim,Jaegwon: 'Philosophy of Mind' [Westview 1998], p.110


A Reaction

Surely we can manage to discuss the processing life of a robot, without having to resort to anthropomorphic psychology? Its human-style behaviour will fit, but the rest blatantly won't.