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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 2. Propositional Attitudes
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How do we distinguish our attitudes from one another? [Kim]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology
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Folk psychology has been remarkably durable [Kim]
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Maybe folk psychology is a simulation, not a theory [Kim]
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A culture without our folk psychology would be quite baffling [Kim]
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Folk psychology has adapted to Freudianism [Kim]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 10. Rule Following
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An 'inner process' stands in need of outward criteria [Wittgenstein]
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Every course of action can either accord or conflict with a rule, so there is no accord or conflict [Wittgenstein]
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One cannot obey a rule 'privately', because that is a practice, not the same as thinking one is obeying [Wittgenstein]
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If individuals can't tell if they are following a rule, how does a community do it? [Grayling on Wittgenstein]
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / c. Turing Test
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A machine with a mind might still fail the Turing Test [Kim]
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The Turing Test is too specifically human in its requirements [Kim]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 5. Twin Earth
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Two identical brain states could have different contents in different worlds [Kim]
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Two types of water are irrelevant to accounts of behaviour [Kim]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content
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Is white simple, or does it consist of the colours of the rainbow? [Wittgenstein]
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Externalist accounts of mental content begin in Wittgenstein [Wittgenstein, by Heil]
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Content may match several things in the environment [Kim]
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'Arthritis in my thigh' requires a social context for its content to be meaningful [Kim]
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Content is best thought of as truth conditions [Kim]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 7. Narrow Content
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Pain, our own existence, and negative existentials, are not external [Kim]
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Content depends on other content as well as the facts [Kim]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / b. Concepts as abilities
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Possessing a concept is knowing how to go on [Wittgenstein, by Peacocke]
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Concepts direct our interests and investigations, and express those interests [Wittgenstein]
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Man learns the concept of the past by remembering [Wittgenstein]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / h. Family resemblance
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Various games have a 'family resemblance', as their similarities overlap and criss-cross [Wittgenstein]
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