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Ideas for 'Consciousness', 'Quine on Quantifying In' and 'A Note on the entscheidungsproblem'

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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories

6529	I see the 'role'/'occupant' distinction as fundamental to metaphysics [Lycan]
	Full Idea: I see the 'role'/'occupant' distinction as fundamental to metaphysics.
	From: William Lycan (Consciousness [1987], 4.0)
	A reaction: A passing remark in a discussion of functionalism about the mind, but I find it appealing. Causation is basic to materialistic metaphysics, and it creates networks of regular causes. It leaves open the essentialist question of WHY it has that role.