| absent qualia objection | The objection to functionalism based on the belief that a functional state could have all the functional properties of a mental state without having any of its qualitative content.
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| behavioral disposition | A tendency to respond to certain stimuli in certain ways.
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| Cartesian dualism | The doctrine that mental states are states of an immaterial substance that interacts with the body.
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| causal closure of the physical | The principle that no physical effect has a non-physical cause.
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| double aspect theory | The doctrine that the mind and the body are two aspects of a single underlying substance.
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| dualism | The doctrine that reality contains both mental and material things.
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| eliminative materialism | The doctrine that there are no mental states.
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| emergent property | A property that comes into being (emerges) when things that lack that property interact in certain ways.
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| empiricism | The epistemological theory that the only source of knowledge about the external world is sense experience.
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| epiphenomenalism | The doctrine that the mind is an ineffective by-product of physical processes.
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| folk psychology | Our common-sense theory of mind that explains people's behavior in terms of beliefs and desires.
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| functionalism | The doctrine that mental states are functional states.
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| idealism | The doctrine that minds and their contents are all that exists.
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| identity theory | The doctrine that mental states are brain states.
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| indiscernibility of identicals | The principle that if two things are identical, then they must both possess the same properties.
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| intentionality | The property of mental states that makes them of or about something.
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| inverted spectrum problem | The problem of accounting for the fact that people's color experiences could be very different even though they are functionally equivalent.
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| logical behaviorism | The doctrine that mental states are behavioral dispositions.
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| logical positivism | The philosophical movement based on the assumption that to know what a sentence means is to know what observations would make it true.
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| materialism | The doctrine that material objects are all that exists.
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| multiple realizability | The view that minds can be realized in things other than brains.
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| occasionalism | The parallelist theory of the mind that claims the correlation between mental and physical events is produced on each occasion by God.
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| parallelism | The doctrine that the mind and the body are two separate things that do not interact with one another.
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| preestablished harmony | The parallelist theory of mind that claims that the correlation between mental and physical events was established by God at the beginning of the universe.
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| primitive property | A property that cannot be reduced to or analyzed in terms of any more basic property.
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| principle of alternative possibilities | One can be held responsible for doing something only if one could have done otherwise
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| problem of other minds | The philosophical problem of explaining how it is possible to know that there are other minds in the world.
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| property dualism | The doctrine that mental states have both physical and nonphysical properties.
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| qualitative content | The felt quality of certain mental states
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| second-order desire | A desire directed on a first-order desire.
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| semantics | What a symbol means.
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| solipsism | The view that there is only one mind in the universe, namely, one's own.
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| syntax | How a symbol can be combined with other symbols to form a sentence.
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| verifiability theory of meaning | The doctrine that the meaning of a statement is its method of verification.
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