Philosophy A-Level
Ordinary-language analysis of mental talk
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Propositions about mental states are propositions about behavioural dispositions, expressed in everyday vocabulary such as 'would do X if Y' rather than the language of physics.
Topics that use Ordinary-language analysis of mental talk
- Physicalist theories (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Eliminative materialism
- First-person certainty of mental states
- Folk psychology
- Hempel's logical analysis of psychology
- Implications for physicalist theories
- Inference to the best explanation
- Knowledge by direct access versus inference
- Knowledge of other minds
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