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    It is not the case that Mental predicates cannot constitute mentality, because mentality is presupposed by the mental predicates themselves.

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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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    • 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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