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    Mental predicates cannot constitute mentality, because mentality is presupposed by the mental predicates themselves.

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    • 1.Irreducible special sciences depend on interest-relative perspectives, which only minds possess.
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    • 2.Psychology is itself an irreducible special science.
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    • 3.Therefore, psychology presupposes the existence of the mental rather than explaining it.
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    • 1.Eliminative materialism (Churchland) denies folk psychological predicates track real mental kinds, dissolving the presupposition relation.
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    • 2.If mental predicates are systematically false of any actual states, they presuppose nothing that genuinely exists.
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    • 3.The regress argument thus collapses if psychology is a failed proto-science rather than an irreducible special science.
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    • 1.Functionalist accounts (Putnam, Lewis) define mental states by causal-functional roles specifiable without prior mentalistic vocabulary.
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    • 2.If mental predicates earn their content from structural-causal relations among states, mentality is constituted by, not prior to, those predicates.
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    The argument from predicate to property dualism moves in two steps, both controversial. The first claims that the irreducible special sciences, which are the sources of irreducible predicates, are not wholly objective in the way that physics is, but depend for their subject matter upon interest-relative perspectives on the world. This means that they, and the predicates special to them, depend on the existence of minds and mental states, for only minds have interest-relative perspectives. The se
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