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    Challenges→If representation requires no explanation for abstract propositions, the same move would trivially dissolve the mind-body problem by stipulating mental states 'primitively represent'.

    Even if representation of propositions needs no causal explanation, this doesn't establish that mental representation *cannot* be primitive without dissolution of mind-body problem.

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    Key Terms

    Causal explanation(one way to explain human actions)
    An explanation of why something happened based on what caused it to happen.
    Dissolution(what Whitehead is trying to do but allegedly fails to do)
    In philosophy, a dissolution means solving or getting rid of a problem by showing it's based on a false assumption or confusion—not just answering it, but explaining why the problem shouldn't exist in the first place.
    Mind-Body Problem(Traditional philosophy of mind)
    The metaphysical question concerning the status of mind in relation to the physical world
    mental representation(as another way ideal objects might exist through our minds)
    A thought, image, or idea that exists in someone's mind as a representation of something.
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    (Used by Merricks to characterize the representational nature of propositions)
    A fact or property that has no further explanation; it cannot be derived from or reduced to anything more fundamental.
    propositions(Answer to the question of what metaphysical category propositions belong to)
    Entities belonging to a sui generis metaphysical category of their own kind, not reducible to other categories
    representation(Schopenhauer's Kantian framework; the empirical/phenomenal side of reality)
    The world as it appears to a knowing subject; objects as they are given through the subject's cognitive forms

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