Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Thoughts/beliefs/animal/Sterelny: Mind readers, according to an argumentation line, master something like an everyday psychology.
>Folk psychology.
Heyes adapts this: a living being with a theory of the mind believes that mental states play a causal role in the generation of behavior.
>Theory of mind, >Causal role, >Behavior.
Concept/Sterelny: when one binds the possession of concepts to the inferential connections between them, one gets to this point of view: the "inferential roles theory of meaning".
>Inferential role, >Inferences, >Roles.
When I respond to the "Tiger" alarm call,...
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...I have a "little knowledge of tigers".
To have a concept of belief is to have a belief theory in this theory.
>Theories, >Beliefs.
Concept/SterelnyVs: it is not compulsory to make concepts dependent on internal relationships,
they can also be identified by their relationships with the outside world.
>External world, >Concepts, >Stimuli.