PHIL 2240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Mind, Lewis Carroll, Rigid Designator
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Everything is purely material or physical - exemplifies materialism. 3. 2 what the identity theory does and does not claim. Not saying talk about mental states had the same meaning as talk about brain states. Pain is not synonymous with c-fibers firing. Not like all: trilaterals are identical with three-sided figures (trilaterals are three-sided figures, This is analytically true (necessarily true by virtue of the meaning of the terms it contains and can never be false) Analytical reduction, rendering without any loss of meaning. 3. 3 avoiding initial objections to the identity theory. Identity they are asserting is not an analytic one. The non-synonymy of expressions flanking an identity sign does not automatically rule out the true of the identity claim. Ex) the reporter who works with lois lane at the daily planet does not mean the same as the man of steel , but the reporter and the man of steel are identical, one and the same.
