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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 Ref
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.