PHIL 483 Lecture Notes - Speech Community, Philosophical Zombie, Inductive Reasoning
25 Jan 2014
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O content-ful (you hope that something will be true) Many of these states have propositional states you hope that, you wish that. Or its content can be an object- i see the bottle. A propositional content to what you"re wanting to do) Or the act of deciding does not require a physical: mental category of perception essentially involves something that gets action. perceived. Feelings angry with my mother an occurrent state. Being angry with my mother, having the disposition to be angry with your mother whenever you are around her. What makes facts different from particulars and universals: ex. the sky is blue, particular: the sky, universal: blue, facts are true propositions. Descartes supports the view and has arguments for it. Arguments: language use could not come about from purely mechanical principles, therefor there has to be non-physical substances. Now a days we think this is possible, not in principle impossible: mathematics could not be explained by a machine.
