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    It is not the case that Rationality speaks to the question of mental realism but does not account for mental anomalism

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    • 1.Davidson's own account in 'Mental Events' ties anomalism directly to the constitutive role of rationality in mental attribution.
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    • 2.If rationality norms are constitutive of the mental, then the very indeterminacy that generates anomalism is inseparable from those norms.
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    • 3.Therefore rationality does explanatory work in grounding anomalism, contra the claim's strict separation.
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    • 1.McDowell and Hornsby argue that the normative holism of the mental — which rationality underwrites — is precisely what resists strict psychophysical laws.
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    • 2.A property that resists lawlike reduction because it is normatively constituted is anomalous partly in virtue of that normative constitution.
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    • 1.Mental anomalism is explained by the general thesis about causally defined properties, not by rationality
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    • 2.The normative character of mental concepts — their responsiveness to the principle of charity and the ideal of rationality — provides grounds for continuing to employ mental concepts rather than eliminating them
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