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Arguments in favour of Dualism:
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Privacy
Directness Incorrigibility |
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Privacy
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I can know about my mental states in the special way I do.
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Directness
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I do not need perpetual process (which could go wrong) to know about my own mental state.
I know them by having them. |
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Incorrigibility
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The subjectivity aspect of mind, cannot be negated.
What a thing is like to me. No physical STATE or ATTRIBUTE have these peculiarities So, at least some mental states have some non-physical attributes |
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Argument against:
If that is the case, that there are two fundamental things which exist (Dualism), the argument is inclined to the "Masked Man Fallacy" |
Masked Man Fallacy
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