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'Through the Looking Glass', 'Philosophy of Mind' and 'Mental Acts: their content and their objects'
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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 / 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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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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Content depends on other content as well as the facts [Kim]
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Pain, our own existence, and negative existentials, are not external [Kim]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts
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The mind does not lift concepts from experience; it creates them, and then applies them [Geach]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 5. Concepts and Language / c. Concepts without language
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If someone has aphasia but can still play chess, they clearly have concepts [Geach]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 3. Abstracta by Ignoring
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'Abstractionism' is acquiring a concept by picking out one experience amongst a group [Geach]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique
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'Or' and 'not' are not to be found in the sensible world, or even in the world of inner experience [Geach]
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We can't acquire number-concepts by extracting the number from the things being counted [Geach]
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Abstractionists can't explain counting, because it must precede experience of objects [Geach]
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The numbers don't exist in nature, so they cannot have been abstracted from there into our languages [Geach]
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Blind people can use colour words like 'red' perfectly intelligently [Geach]
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If 'black' and 'cat' can be used in the absence of such objects, how can such usage be abstracted? [Geach]
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We can form two different abstract concepts that apply to a single unified experience [Geach]
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