Full Idea
Davidson's anomalous monism says no more about the relationship between the mental and the physical than the claim that all objects with a colour have a shape says about the relationship between colours and shapes.
Gist of Idea
Anomalous monism says nothing at all about the relationship between mental and physical
Source
report of Donald Davidson (Mental Events [1970]) by Jaegwon Kim - Mind in a Physical World §1 p.005
Book Reference
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Mind in the Physical World' [MIT 2000], p.5
A Reaction
Indeed, I find the enthusiasm for property dualism etc. quite baffling, given that we are merely told that mind is 'an anomaly'. I take it to be old fashioned dualism in trendy clothes.