"Broadly speaking, dualist theories are of three sorts...1st., classic ontological theories...2nd., semantic theories...and 3rd., accounts that...find it impossible to confirm...the reduction of mental attributes to physical attributes." Margolis, 1978) ht
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@Helenreflects I'm committed to non-reductive materialism because it just makes the most sense to me. The theory of mind as an emergent property of matter supports cultural realism, whereby songs, paintings, stories etc. are regarded as irreducibly real. h
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@john_traphagan @MetrodorusAshok "Persons are in a sense not natural entities: they exist only in cultural contexts and are identifiable as such only by reference to their mastery of language and of whatever further abilities presuppose such mastery." http