Lexicon of Arguments

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Dennett I 292 ff
Fodor/Dennett: the necessity of an organism to work smoothly at any stage imposes iron restrictions on its subsequent properties.
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Fodor IV 127
Functionalist: the causal role distinguishes desires and beliefs ((s) internal in the mind).
SemanticsVsFunctionalism: the relationship between mind/world is determining. >World/Thinking, >Causal roles.
IV 127
Semantic properties/Fodor/Lepore: functionalism: the semantic properties are derived from the functional (causal) role. So beliefs and desires are distinguished by the causal role. On the other hand: semantics: the semantic properties are derived from the relation of mind/world.
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Frank I 61 ~
FodorVsFunctionalism: functionalism does not grasp the qualia, nothing would be a token of the general type of pain, even if it were linked typically with all other psychological states. Argument of the missing qualia: the organism could behave without them jsut the same. Shoemaker: failure of qualia is unthinkable because of networking. >Qualia, >Qualia/Chalmers.

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