Full Idea
All that is needed for the mind-body problem to be unintelligible is for us to be nominalist, to refuse firmly to hypostasize individual properties.
Gist of Idea
The mind is a property, or it is baffling
Source
Richard Rorty (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature [1980], 1.3)
Book Reference
Rorty,Richard: 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' [Blackwell 1980], p.32
A Reaction
Edelman says the mind is a process rather than a property. It might vanish if the clockspeed was turned right down? Nominalism here sounds like behaviourism or instrumentalism. Would Dennett plead guilty?