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Full Idea
Mental entities do not add to the physical furniture of the world.
Gist of Idea
Mental entities do not add to the physical furniture of the world
Source
Donald Davidson (Davidson on himself [1994], p.231)
Book Ref
'A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind', ed/tr. Guttenplan,Samuel [Blackwell 1995], p.231
A Reaction
This seems to me clearly true, however we propose to characterise mental events.