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logy, Volume 1.
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suitable pattern of causal relationships, as may the states of
a bundle of human neurones, or the states of ... some of its proponents
regarding it more as an account of our concepts of mental states than as a theory
of the nature of mental states themse...
... whether
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content of John’s belief that snow is white. It would be wrong
for us – and wrong for John – to say that the inhabitants of
the distant planet ... propositions appear
to be abstract entities, more akin to the objects of mathemat-
ics than to anything found in the concrete realm of psycho-
logy, it seems...
... con-
cerning the ‘content’ of intentional states of mind, such as
the question of whether content can be assigned to mental
states independently of the wider physical environments of
the subjects whose states ... partisan, in the sense of espousing an
exclusive approach to questions about the mind in general –
An introduction to the philosophy...
... experience
and the relationship between mental and physical states.
Then, in chapters 3 and 4, I move on to discuss certain gen-
eral theories of the nature of mental states and some
attempts to explain ... possible. And the
provision of just such a conception is one of the principal
tasks of metaphysics.
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The point of these remarks is to emphasise there c...
... relative to one another – things such as the colour
and shape of the tree and of the house, the intervening
ground between them, the sky behind them, and other
objects in their vicinity (together ... to divide one’s attention in a
way which seems to be psychologically impossible. From the
point of view of the causal theory, then, it is easy enough to
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... helped to know that it’s on the left of the main entrance. It’s an
approximately life-size second-century ad Roman depiction of Apollo, standing
up with the remains of an arrow in one hand and—one ... if there are any); they believe that he is the creator of moral and other
sorts of value for us; they believe that he has revealed himself to us; and they
believe that...
... chosen to highlight two important
points about the doctrine of brain mind isomorphism. One is
that it is just as fruitful to map from the brain to the mind as it is
to map from the mind to the ... not applying the mental state concept to dream-
ing and the mental status approach to its analysis.
Below is another report that will help us see the glob...
... INVASIONS AND THE BREAK-UP OF THE ROMAN
EMPIRE
The Huns force the Goths into the Empire. Battle of Adrianople, 378.
9. Previous to the year 375 the attempts of the Germans to penetrate into the ... volume of
the chief changes in western Europe since the German barbarians overcame the armies
of the Roman Empire and set up states of their own, out...
... constant factor, as they are all integer mul-
tiples of the cost of a basic instruction cycle. Furthermore, the total running
time of the program will be within a constant factor of the number of ... of such effects to be sure the results of
analysis are useful. On the other hand, in some cases, analysis of an algo-
rithm can help identify ways for it to take...