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    Supports→A semantic theory that limits its ontology to sentence types cannot provide a true analysis of propositional attitude sentences such as 'Seneca believed that man is a rational animal'.

    If sentence types were the objects of belief, a monolingual Latin speaker like Seneca could not hold beliefs expressible only in Greek, yet clearly he could hold such beliefs under any adequate theory of mind.

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    Adequate theory of mind(in philosophy of mind)
    A correct, complete explanation of how human thinking, consciousness, and mental processes actually work.
    Expressible only in Greek(describing thoughts or ideas tied to a specific language)
    Able to be stated or communicated using Greek words and concepts, but not easily translatable into other languages like Latin.
    Monolingual(describing Seneca's language abilities)
    A person who speaks and understands only one language.
    Objects of belief(as used in philosophy of mind)
    The things or ideas that a belief is actually about—what the belief points to or refers to.
    Seneca(as a Stoic thinker mentioned as offering a more nuanced view)

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    A Roman Stoic philosopher (4 BC - 65 AD) who wrote extensively about how to live a good life; he's known for acknowledging difficulties within Stoic philosophy that even other Stoics overlooked.
    sentence types(in logic and language)
    General categories of sentences rather than individual ones; for example, the sentence type 'All cats are animals' as a pattern, not just one written instance of it.

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