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Davidson - anomalous monism, Events, usual identity theories, =, -> -…

- - - - Describable in phy terms
    - - Describable in mental terms
        
        :warning:
        
        EVERY event is describable as mental (e.g. collision of two :star: can be picked out by rolling :pencil2:)
        
        BUT it doesn't matter for the theory if more events can count as ment..
      - Mental verbs: express propositional attitudes
        
        Intentionality
      - Sentences with - subject + completed by embeddrd sentences
      - A type of identity theory
        
        :check:ALL events are physical (like materialism)
        .
        
        :red_cross: mental phenomena can have purely phy. explanations (NO reductionism)
        .
        
        :red_cross: psychophy.al laws
        .
        
        :check:true general statements (mental=phy) -> BUT only lawlike > in their logical form
        .
        
        :check:every mental event can be singled out using only phy concepts
        
        :red_cross: definitional behaviourism (mental concepts can be reduced only to mental)
        
        Physical
        
        supervene on
        
        :red_cross:phy.event=phy.event & mental.event x= mental event
        .
        
        :red_cross:mental.event x= mental event & phy.event=phy.event
        
        <<<
        
        Mental
- - - - <<<
    - - support counterfactual
        .
        
        are supported by their instances
        
        In physical science
        
        :red_cross:assign length to an obj. WITHOUT a comprehensive theory (relational term)
    - - e.g. all emeralds are grue ->
        :red_cross:lawlike
        while "all emeralds are greem :check:is
      - Uses predicates -> we apriori know belonf together
        
        Mental & physical predicates :red_cross: meant for eachother
- - - - About mental phenomena
        
        :red_cross:assign prop.att. WITHOUT a theory of his beliefs