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    Mental simulation events are not events of judging that s... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Mental simulation events cannot be constitutive of mindreading events.

    Mental simulation events are not events of judging that someone else has a certain mental state.

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    We shall elaborate on the details of the Constitution View in section 4.3. Before doing that, we consider an argument that has been directed against it over and over again, and which is supposed to show that the Constitution View is a non-starter (Fuller 1995; Heal 1995; Goldman 2008b; Jacob 2008, 2012). Lacking a better name, we will call it “the Anti-Constitution argument”. Here it is. By definition, a mindreading event is a mental event in which a subject, S, represents another subject, Q,

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