Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Animal/Mind/Intentionality/Premack/Woodruff/Proust: Premack/Woodruff's famous studies of "Theory of the Mind" in animals, "beliefs and desires", etc.
Theory of the Mind, >Premack, >Woodruff, >Beliefs, >Thinking, >Thinking without language, >Desires.
Proust: if one speaks of a theory of the mind, one should distinguish it from a social one not from a psychological competence in the strict sense by which social animals try to influence each other.
Premack: an animal can deliberately act on what another is doing (social) or thinks (then also psychologically).
>Intentions.
"Spoilsport version": the explanation of behavior: not intention but only established correlation is intended to explain the behavior of an animal.
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Then the psychological side can be dispensed with. Speechless animals simply establish a correlation.
Cf. >Animals, >Animal language, >Thinking/animal.
DennettVs: intentional attitude for explanation.
>Correlation, >Animals/Dennett, >Intentional stance.
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Intentionality/Dennett: Levels:
1. Desires and beliefs can be attributed.
2. Beliefs and desires about beliefs and desires
3. Beliefs and desires about beliefs and desires of the second level, etc.
>Levels/order, >Description levels.
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ProustVsDennett: opens the door for the human to apply his psychological concepts to apparently concept-less processes: cars, dogs, cats.
It is slightly different with primates.
>Concepts, >Language and thinking, >Thinking without language.