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    It is not the case that Fodor's methodological solipsism targets computational individuation, not the exhaustive individuation of all mental state types.

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    • 1.If computational processes are individuated internally, but mental states require external factors, the boundary between them becomes unclear and unstable.
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    • 2.Fodor's own arguments about intentionality and semantic content suggest externalism applies broadly to mental states, not merely narrow computational subsets.
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    • 3.Restricting methodological solipsism to computation arbitrarily splits what may be a unified phenomenon of content-bearing mental representation.
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    • 1.Computational processes operate on syntactic properties that are intrinsic to the system, independent of external reference relations.
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    • 2.Fodor explicitly limits methodological solipsism to explaining how mental content is computed, not to exhausting mental ontology.
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    • 3.Distinguishing computational individuation from metaphysical individuation preserves internalism while accommodating externalist intuitions about content.
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