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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 3. Mental Causation

4887	We try to cause other things to occur by causing mental events to occur [Perry]
	Full Idea: We try to cause other things to occur by causing mental events to occur.
	From: John Perry (Knowledge, Possibility and Consciousness [2001], §2.4)
	A reaction: A small and obvious, but important, point. Mental causation isn't just thoughts leading to physical happenings. Here Perry means that events can be designed to cause thoughts, such as a threatening letter. Not much room for epiphenomenalism here.