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Single Idea 12602

[catalogued under 15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 6. Anti-Individualism]

Full Idea

There is no natural border between inner and outer.

Gist of Idea

There is no natural border between inner and outer

Source

Gilbert Harman ((Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics [1987], 12.3.4)

Book Reference

Harman,Gilbert: 'Reasoning Meaning and Mind' [OUP 1999], p.224


A Reaction

Perhaps this is the key idea for the anti-individualist view of mind. Subjectively I would have to accept this idea, but looking objectively at another person it seems self-evident nonsense.