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    Ryle's dispositional analysis shows that mental predicate... — Carmelics
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    Ryle's dispositional analysis shows that mental predicates like desire are behavioral dispositions, not markers of an inner metaphysical entity inhabiting the body.

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    • 1.Observable behavioral patterns provide sufficient grounds for attributing mental states without positing unobservable inner entities.
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    • 2.Positing immaterial minds creates intractable interaction problems: how does non-physical desire causally influence physical behavior?
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    • 3.Desiring X consists in dispositions to behave in ways characteristic of X-seekers; nothing further is ontologically required.
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    • 1.Behavioral dispositions are mere regularities; they don't explain why someone with identical dispositions reports different subjective experiences.
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    • 2.A paralyzed person retains desires despite lacking behavioral dispositions to act on them, showing desire transcends behavioral potential.
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    • 3.Mental predicates seem to have intrinsic phenomenological content (what desire feels like) that behavioral analysis systematically omits.
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