Max Black on Mentalism - Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments

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Mentalism, philosophy of the mind: the assumption that there are inner, mental objects that play causal or functional roles in the formation of attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, feelings, etc. These roles are rather understood as processes by theories, which are opposed to mentalism. See also intensional objects, thought objects. _____________ Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

Black, Max Books on Amazon	Mentalism	II 215 Mentalism / Black: "mental units": images, ideas, thoughts, concepts, or ideas - BehaviorismusVs: unverifiable - Morris: with mentalism a science of signs would not be possible - II 216 BlackVsMentalism: how can I determine the occurrence of idea in a listener? Not by ransfering my idea on you : how could that work? _____________ Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution.	Bla I Max Black Bedeutung und Intention In Handlung, Kommunikation, Bedeutung, G. Meggle (Hg), Frankfurt/M 1979 Bla II M. Black Sprache München 1973 Bla III M. Black The Prevalence of Humbug Ithaca/London 1983

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