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    A consistent folk psychological theory cannot be extracted by uncritically collecting common sense platitudes

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    • 1.Common sense contains departures from what the best systematic theory would endorse
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    • 2.Just as a grammar of a language must allow for departures from strict grammaticality implicit in actual speech patterns, a theory of folk psychology must allow for inconsistencies in common sense
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    • 1.Reflective equilibrium methods, as developed by Rawls and applied to folk psychology by Stich, can systematically reconcile inconsistent platitudes into coherent theory.
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    • 2.The grammar analogy undermines itself: descriptive linguistics successfully extracts consistent competence models despite surface irregularities in actual speech.
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    • 1.Lewis's Ramsey-sentence approach demonstrates that the functional roles implicit in folk psychological platitudes converge on a consistent theoretical network when formalized.
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    • 2.Apparent inconsistencies in common sense often reflect context-sensitivity or vagueness rather than genuine logical contradiction, and do not preclude systematic extraction.
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    Thus there is no need for explicit use of Ockham's Razor as in Smart (1959) though not in Place (1956). (See Place 1960.) Lewis's paper was extremely valuable and already there are hints of a marriage between the identity theory of mind and so-called ‘functionalist’ ideas that are explicit in Lewis 1972 and 1994. In his 1972 (‘Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications’) he applies ideas in his more formal paper ‘How to Define Theoretical Terms’ (1970). Folk psychology contains words such as
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