Davidson's anomalous monism establishes that mental events qua mental cannot be subsumed under strict physical laws, so a purely physical redescription loses the explanatory content that underwrites the correlation.
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Subsumed under strict physical laws(whether mental events can be fully explained by physics)
Able to be completely explained and predicted using only the laws that govern physical matter and energy.
Underwrites(what the explanatory content does for the correlation)
Supports, grounds, or provides the foundation for something; makes it true or valid.
anomalous monism(Davidson's position distinguishing it from standard type identity theories)
A form of token identity theory holding that mental events are identical to physical events, but mental descriptions do not participate in strict causal laws due to the anomalous (non-law-governed) nature of intentional predicates.
correlation(Skyrms's model of the evolution of justice)
A parameter measuring the degree to which interacting individuals are similar to one another genetically or culturally, influencing the basin of attraction for cooperative equilibria