Lexicon of Arguments

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ad V 57
Mentalism/Quine/(s): assumption of internal objects as a guarantor of the truth of propositions e.g. about ideas - e.g. word meaning.
Quine: Mentalism has strong echoes of introspection.
>Introspection.
VI 105
Mentalism/Quine: (belief in inner objects).
Origin: the perception that others perceive something.
Analog: is the belief in final causes for the meaning of life.
Purpose: psychological projection.
IV 402
QuineVsBritish Empiricism: this is based on the acceptance of ideas (derived from Locke).

Uncritical Mentalism: too simple an image of the experience reference of languages and theories.
Reference/Quine: Such a reference cannot be defined idea for idea or term for term.
>Objects of belief, >Objects of thought, >Mental objects.

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