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Single Idea 15473

[from 'works' by Jerry A. Fodor, in 15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / a. Nature of intentionality ]

Full Idea

Fodor asks the stirring and basic question 'How does anything get outside itself?'

Gist of Idea

How does anything get outside itself?

Source

report of Jerry A. Fodor (works [1986]) by C.B. Martin - The Mind in Nature 03.6

Book Reference

Martin,C.B.: 'The Mind in Nature' [OUP 2008], p.33


A Reaction

Is this one of those misconceived questions, like major issues concerning 'what's it like to be?' In what sense am I outside myself? Is a mind any more mysterious than a shadow?