Matter & Conscious - 3

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The Theoretical Network Thesis and Folk Psychology

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Our common-sense terms for mental states are the theoretical terms of a theoretical framework (folk psychology) embedded in our common-sense understanding, and the meanings of those terms are fixed in the same way as are the meanings of theoretical terms in general.

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The Deductive-Nomological Model of Explanation

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The laws of any theory do more, however, than just give sense to the theoretical terms they contain. They also serve a predictive and an explanatory function, and this is their main value.

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Propositional Attitudes

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each expresses a distinct 'attitude' toward a specific proposition. In the technical vocabulary of philosophers, such states are said to display intentionality, in that they 'intend' something or 'point to' something beyond themselves: they 'intend', or point to, children, humans, and civilization.

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Examples of Propositional attitudes:

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Believes that
Desires that
fears that
sees that
suspects that

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Examples of Numerical attitudes:

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has a length of
has a velocity of
has a temperature of
has a charge of
has a kinetic energy of