Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 107 ff
Cartesianism/Asymmetry/Avramidis: the Cartesianism is an older tradition of deep epistemic asymmetry.
>Terminology/Avramides.
Mental objects are only accessible through first-person perspective.
>First Person, >Priviledged acces.
Other minds are only guessable through behavior.
>Other minds.
Then there is no superficial epistemic asymmetry.
Important argument: ontological symmetry: the mental and the material are on the same level.
>Levels/Order.
This thesis is ot obliged to physicalism.
>Physicalism.
Variant of Cartesianism: one might even say the God standpoint could not recognize the intangible substance.
Deep epistemic asymmetry/Avramides: if we could recognize the intangible substance, we could recognize foreign intentions without language.
Cartesianism/Avramides: here: variant with divine access to the intangible.
Cartesianism/Avramides:is not reductive!
>Reduction, >Reductionism.
I 110
AvramidesVsCartesianism: It is a mistake to proceed without observing behavior.
>Behavior, >Understanding.