Single Idea 3420

[catalogued under 18. Thought / C. Content / 5. Twin Earth]

Full Idea

The difference in the two types of 'water' in the Twin Earth experiment seem psychologically irrelevant, for behaviour causation or explanation.

Gist of Idea

Two types of water are irrelevant to accounts of behaviour

Source

Jaegwon Kim (Philosophy of Mind [1996], p.203)

Book Reference

Kim,Jaegwon: 'Philosophy of Mind' [Westview 1998], p.203


A Reaction

A rather important point. No matter how externalist you are about what content really is, people can only act on the internal aspects of it.